amapola
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,956
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
amapola is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Papaver spp) en particular (Papaver rhoeas) Planta anua de la familia de las papaveráceas, con flores roja, por lo común, y semilla negruzca. Frecuentemente nace en los sembrados y los infesta. Es... Pronounced [amaˈpola]. Often confused with ampolla and amazona.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amapola |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [amaˈpola] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for amapola is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [amaˈpola]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,956 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for amapola, with forms such as "aampola", "amaopla", and "amaploa". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ampolla", "amazona", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 amapola, spelled A-M-A-P-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Papaver spp) en particular (Papaver rhoeas) Planta anua de la familia de las papaveráceas, con flores roja, por lo común, y semilla negruzca. Frecuentemente nace en los sembrados y los infesta. Es sudorífica y algo calmante.
- 2(Erythrina poeppigiana) Árbol caducifolio de la familia Fabaceae nativo la zona intertropical de Centroamérica, Sudamérica y Antillas Mayores. Es usado por su valor ornamental debido a su amplia floración y para dar sombra a otros cultivos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aampola,amaopla,amaploa,amapoal,amapolla,amappola,ammapola,ampaola,maapola
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Misspelling Variants of "amapola"
Frequency rank: #32,956 in Spanish
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