victoria pírrica
[bikˈt̪oɾja ˈpirika]
The verdict
“victoria pírrica” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Logro obtenido a costa de cuantiosas pérdidas del bando vencedor, de modo que el resultado le es funesto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | victoria pírrica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [bikˈt̪oɾja ˈpirika] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “victoria pírrica” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for victoria pírrica is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bikˈt̪oɾja ˈpirika]. 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: "Logro obtenido a costa de cuantiosas pérdidas del bando vencedor, de modo que el resultado le es funesto.".
No misspelling variants are generated for victoria pírrica 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 victoria pírrica, spelled V-I-C-T-O-R-I-A- -P-Í-R-R-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Logro obtenido a costa de cuantiosas pérdidas del bando vencedor, de modo que el resultado le es funesto.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-I-C-T-O-R-I-A- -P-Í-R-R-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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