alcarchofa
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10 characters
Language
Spanish
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alcarchofa 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 [alkaɾˈt͡ʃofa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcarchofa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alkaɾˈt͡ʃofa] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for alcarchofa is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alkaɾˈt͡ʃofa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for alcarchofa 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 alcarchofa, spelled A-L-C-A-R-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.
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