100 Serious Word Examples (Explained)

Serious words

The serious words or plain words are those whose stressed syllable is the penultimate, according to the classification of words according to where the stressed syllable is located (that is, the one that is pronounced with more emphasis). For example:facil, rana, cocina.

The other two most common classes of words when it comes to stress are the sharp words, which have the last syllable as the stressed syllable, and the esdrújulas words, in which the stressed syllable is the penultimate.

When do they have an accent?

To know what serious words they carry accent mark or orthographic accent, we must follow a rule:

Grave words separated into syllables

Serious words with tilde

Grave words without accent

Grave animal words

Grave words of fruits, trees and plants

Grave words from cities and countries

Grave word stress exceptions