arpía
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#70,000
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
arpía is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Harpia harpyja) Águila de gran tamaño, de hasta 2 m de envergadura, de la Familia Accipitridae y característica del los bosques de lluvia de América del Centro y del Sur. Pronounced [aɾˈpia].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arpía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɾˈpia] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for arpía is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɾˈpia]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,000 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for arpía 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 arpía, spelled A-R-P-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Harpia harpyja) Águila de gran tamaño, de hasta 2 m de envergadura, de la Familia Accipitridae y característica del los bosques de lluvia de América del Centro y del Sur.
- 2(Harpyopsis novaeguineae) Águila endémica de Nueva Guinea, de la Familia Accipitridae propia de los bosques tropicales de altura.
- 3Animal fantástico de la mitología griega con cuerpo de ave, cabeza de mujer y cola de serpiente. Son características las harpías en los capiteles románicos.
- 4Mujer malvada y cruel.
- 5Mujer flaca y desfigurada.
- 6Mujer prostituta.
Frequency rank: #70,000 in Spanish
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