verso sáfico
The verdict
“verso sáfico” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Verso de la poesía española, que consta de 11 sílabas, como el griego y latino, y cuyos acentos métricos estriban en la cuarta y la octava. Es más cadencioso y tiene mayor semejanza con el sáfico a...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verso sáfico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbeɾso ˈsafiko] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “verso sáfico” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for verso sáfico is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbeɾso ˈsafiko]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Verso de la poesía española, que consta de 11 sílabas, como el griego y latino, y cuyos acentos métricos estriban en la cuarta y la octava. Es más cadencioso y tiene mayor semejanza con el sáfico a...".
No misspelling variants are generated for verso sáfico in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 verso sáfico, spelled V-E-R-S-O- -S-Á-F-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Verso de la poesía española, que consta de 11 sílabas, como el griego y latino, y cuyos acentos métricos estriban en la cuarta y la octava. Es más cadencioso y tiene mayor semejanza con el sáfico antiguo cuando su primera sílaba es larga.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “verso sáfico”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-E-R-S-O- -S-Á-F-I-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbeɾso ˈsafiko] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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