árnica
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
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árnica is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Arnica spp.) Cualquiera de unas 30 especies de plantas perennes, herbáceas, de la familia de las asteráceas, de tallo erecto, roseta basal de hojas coriáceas, y flores compuestas. Por su alta conc... Pronounced [ˈaɾnika].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | árnica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɾnika] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for árnica is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɾnika]. 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 árnica 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 árnica, spelled Á-R-N-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Arnica spp.) Cualquiera de unas 30 especies de plantas perennes, herbáceas, de la familia de las asteráceas, de tallo erecto, roseta basal de hojas coriáceas, y flores compuestas. Por su alta concentración de timol ha sido usada tradicionalmente como medicinal, aunque los estudios modernos no han podido verificar su eficacia
- 2Tintura de árnica₁, usada como antiinflamatorio
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