yeísta
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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yeísta is anSpanishadj. It means: Que pertenece o concierne al yeísmo (fusión de los sonidos representados con ⟨y⟩ y ⟨ll⟩ en uno solo). Pronounced [ʝeˈist̪a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yeísta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ʝeˈist̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for yeísta is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʝeˈist̪a]. 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 yeísta 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 yeísta, spelled Y-E-Í-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne al yeísmo (fusión de los sonidos representados con ⟨y⟩ y ⟨ll⟩ en uno solo).
- 2Que pronuncia de modo yeísta₁, es decir, no pronuncia la ⟨ll⟩ con el fonema /ʎ/ (lateral palatal) sino con /ʝ/ (fricativa palatal sonora).
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