alcachofa
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#56,785
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
alcachofa is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus, sin. C. scolymus) Planta herbácea perenne de la familia de las asteráceas, oriunda de África, de tallo erecto y espinoso de hasta 2 m de altura, hojas lobuladas, ... Pronounced [alkaˈt͡ʃofa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcachofa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alkaˈt͡ʃofa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for alcachofa is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alkaˈt͡ʃofa]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,785 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for alcachofa 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 alcachofa, spelled A-L-C-A-C-H-O-F-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus, sin. C. scolymus) Planta herbácea perenne de la familia de las asteráceas, oriunda de África, de tallo erecto y espinoso de hasta 2 m de altura, hojas lobuladas, plateadas, glaucas, e inflorescencia terminal en capítulo globoso, cuyo capullo es comestible. Se aprecia en gastronomía y en medicina como tónico hepático y colagogo.
- 2Capullo comestible de la inflorescencia de la alcachofa₁, de la que se consume la base de los involucros y el clinanto.
- 3Capullo comestible análogo de otras asteráceas, como el cardo.
- 4Adorno en forma de alcachofa₂.
- 5Bollo de pan en forma de alcachofa₂.
- 6Pieza terminal de una ducha o regadera, dotada de múltiples agujeros que dispersan el agua en forma de lluvia.
- 7Pieza agujereada, de forma similar a la alcachofa₆, que se emplea como filtro en algunas tomas de agua.
- 8Dispositivo transductor que transforma las vibraciones del aire que transmiten el sonido en impulsos eléctricos para su amplificación o grabación.
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Frequency rank: #56,785 in Spanish
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