alubia
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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alubia is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Phaseolus vulgaris) Planta leguminosa de la familia de las fabáceas, con hábito muy variable, que puede alcanzar hasta 60 cm de altura cuando erecta y cinco veces eso como liana, de tallo redondea... Pronounced [aˈluβ̞ja].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alubia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈluβ̞ja] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for alubia is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈluβ̞ja]. 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 alubia 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 alubia, spelled A-L-U-B-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Phaseolus vulgaris) Planta leguminosa de la familia de las fabáceas, con hábito muy variable, que puede alcanzar hasta 60 cm de altura cuando erecta y cinco veces eso como liana, de tallo redondeado, hojas trifoliadas de folíolos cordiformes. Produce flores solitarias, blancas, que fructifican en una vaina longilínea con entre 4 y 6 semillas. Se cultiva por estas, usadas como alimento
- 2Semilla de la alubia₁, usada como alimento
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