alacranera

/[alakɾaˈneɾa]/ noun

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10 characters

Language

Spanish

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alacranera is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Arthrocnemum macrostachyum) Arbustillo perennifolio, hermafrodita, generalmente erguido, de hasta 1,5 m de altura, muy ramoso. Pronounced [alakɾaˈneɾa].

Key facts for alacranera
PropertyValue
Headwordalacranera
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[alakɾaˈneɾa]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

alacranera is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for alacranera is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alakɾaˈneɾa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for alacranera 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 alacranera, spelled A-L-A-C-R-A-N-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Arthrocnemum macrostachyum) Arbustillo perennifolio, hermafrodita, generalmente erguido, de hasta 1,5 m de altura, muy ramoso.
  2. 2
    (Coronilla scorpioides) Hierbas glabras. Tallos de hasta 35 cm de altura, erecto-ascendentes. Hojas crasas; las basales de hasta 30 mm, simples, elípticas o suborbiculares; las caulinares trifoliadas, con folíolos laterales semejando a estípulas foliáceas; estípulas membranosas, soldadas. Inflorescencias con 2-4 flores con pedúnculos más largos que las hojas.
  3. 3
    (Heliotropium europaeum) Es una planta erecta, ampliamente ramosa, con pelos grisáceos, anual, fétida. Hojas ovadas a elípticas, de base cuneada a redondeada, pecioladas. Flores blancas o lilas, de 2-4 mm de diámetro, sépalos lineales oblongos a estrechamente triangulares, extendidos tras la floración; brácteas ausentes. Florece de junio a octubre
  4. 4
    (Sarcocornia fruticosa) Planta halófita de la familia Amaranthaceae, hierba perennifolia, hermafrodita de hasta 1,5 m, siempre erguida, muy ramoso. Ramillas opuestas; las fértiles herbáceas, también opuestas, articuladas, cilíndricas, con todos los artejos cilíndricos, verdes y glabras, en apariencia desprovistas de hojas. Hojas muy pequeñas sésiles, soldadas entre sí sobre el ápice de los artejos o segmentos, formando una especie de delgado anillo hialino.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alacranera"?
"alacranera" is spelled A-L-A-C-R-A-N-E-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [alakɾaˈneɾa].
What does "alacranera" mean?
As a noun, "alacranera" means: (Arthrocnemum macrostachyum) Arbustillo perennifolio, hermafrodita, generalmente erguido, de hasta 1,5 m de altura, muy ramoso.
How do you pronounce "alacranera"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alacranera" is [alakɾaˈneɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alacranera" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.