viento cortante
[ˈbjẽn̪t̪o koɾˈt̪ãn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“viento cortante” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Corrientes verticales descendentes de corta duración que parten de una nube y se esparcen hacia el suelo, golpeando frontalmente las alas de un avión, lo cual dificulta el aterrizaje al no poder co...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viento cortante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbjẽn̪t̪o koɾˈt̪ãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “viento cortante” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for viento cortante is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbjẽn̪t̪o koɾˈt̪ãn̪t̪e]. 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: "Corrientes verticales descendentes de corta duración que parten de una nube y se esparcen hacia el suelo, golpeando frontalmente las alas de un avión, lo cual dificulta el aterrizaje al no poder co...".
No misspelling variants are generated for viento cortante 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 viento cortante, spelled V-I-E-N-T-O- -C-O-R-T-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Corrientes verticales descendentes de corta duración que parten de una nube y se esparcen hacia el suelo, golpeando frontalmente las alas de un avión, lo cual dificulta el aterrizaje al no poder controlarse suavemente el descenso.
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 “viento cortante”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-I-E-N-T-O- -C-O-R-T-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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