🇪🇸 Spanish

contraseña

feminine

la contraseña

password

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contraseña
/la kontɾaˈseɲa/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say contraseña in Spanish?

IPA
/la kontɾaˈseɲa/

How do you pronounce contraseña in Spanish?

contraseña is pronounced /la kontɾaˈseɲa/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La contraseña nueva que creé es muy segura y difícil de adivinar.

The new password that I created is very secure and difficult to guess.

Mi contraseña anterior estaba débil, así que tuve que cambiarla por una más fuerte.

My previous password was weak, so I had to change it for a stronger one.

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Why is it feminine?

Contraseña is feminine because it derives from "seña" (feminine, meaning "sign" or "signal"), which comes from Latin "signa" (the feminine plural of "signum"); the prefix "contra-" is added to create a compound word that retains the gender of its base noun.

What is the Spanish word for password?

The Spanish word for password is la contraseña — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmot de passe flips!lemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianpasswordlafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesesenhaafeminine

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