araucaria
The verdict
“araucaria” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #87,493 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #87,493
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cualquiera de los árboles pertenecientes al género de coníferas Araucaria de la familia Araucariaceae.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | araucaria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɾawˈkaɾja] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “araucaria” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for araucaria is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɾawˈkaɾja]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,493 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for araucaria 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 araucaria, spelled A-R-A-U-C-A-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de los árboles pertenecientes al género de coníferas Araucaria de la familia Araucariaceae.
- 2Por antonomasia (Araucaria araucana), Árbol perteneciente al género de coníferas Araucaria de la familia Araucariaceae. Árbol perenne, de hasta 50 m de altura, con tronco recto, cilíndrico, a veces muy grueso (3 o más metros). La ramificación comienza a varios metros del suelo. Sus hojas son de extrema dureza y están provistas de un mucrón (espina) en la punta, de color verde oscuro. Las hojas son de 3 a 4 cm de largo y están dispuestas de manera imbricada sobre la ramilla, donde permanecen durante varios años. Las semillas, llamadas piñones, son comestibles y tienen alto valor nutricional. Es árbol ornamental y especie protegida en Chile. Su hábitat son zonas entre 800 y 1000 msnm en la cordillera de Nahuelbuta, región de la Araucanía, y faldeos cordilleranos de los Andes en Chile y Argentina.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #87,493 in Spanish
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Using “araucaria”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-R-A-U-C-A-R-I-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aɾawˈkaɾja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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