umlaut
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
umlaut is aSpanishnoun. It means: Signo gráfico compuesto por dos puntos colocados horizontalmente a la misma altura y escritos sobre una vocal para indicar una alteración en su pronunciación. Pronounced [ˈũmlawt̪].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umlaut |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈũmlawt̪] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for umlaut is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈũmlawt̪]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for umlaut in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is umlaut, spelled U-M-L-A-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Signo gráfico compuesto por dos puntos colocados horizontalmente a la misma altura y escritos sobre una vocal para indicar una alteración en su pronunciación.
- 2Mutación fonética propia de las lenguas germánicas, en las que una vocal posterior se vuelve anterior cuando la sílaba que la sucede cuenta con alguno de los fonemas [i], [iː] o [j].
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