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Spanish spelling is close to phonemic: with a handful of rules you can predict, from the letters alone, where a word breaks and which syllable is stressed. That is why this page can analyse text it has never seen — nothing here is looked up in a dictionary.
-n, or -s stress
the second-to-last syllable (llana): ca-sa, can-tan,
es-tu-dian-te.Words stressed on the third-from-last syllable are esdrújulas, and they always carry a written accent — which is why the first rule is enough to catch them.
l or r: a-brir,
cons-truir.ch, ll and rr are single letters and never
split: pe-rro, lla-ve, cho-co-la-te.a, e, o) form separate
syllables: le-er. A closed vowel (i, u) joins its
neighbour into one syllable: ai-re, bue-no.The transcription is broad: it shows the phonemes and the most
important allophones, not every fine detail of a given speaker. Notably it marks the
softening of b, d and g between vowels
(abrir → /aˈβɾiɾ/), the difference between the tap ɾ
and the trill r (pero vs perro), and nasal assimilation
(banco → /ˈbaŋko/, but once → /ˈonse/, because
that c is an /s/).
Switching the dialect to Castilian changes c before e/i
and z from /s/ to /θ/ — corazón becomes
/koɾaˈθon/.