astrágalo
The verdict
“astrágalo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #98,113 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #98,113
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Hueso del tarso que constituye la parte inferior del tobillo, junto con sus articulaciones y con los maléolos de la tibia y el peroné.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astrágalo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [asˈt̪ɾaɣ̞alo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “astrágalo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for astrágalo is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [asˈt̪ɾaɣ̞alo]. Corpus data places it at rank #98,113 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for astrágalo 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 astrágalo, spelled A-S-T-R-Á-G-A-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hueso del tarso que constituye la parte inferior del tobillo, junto con sus articulaciones y con los maléolos de la tibia y el peroné.
- 2Baquetón fino que ciñe el fuste de una columna en su extremo superior y sobre el que se asientan los capiteles. Puede ir decorado en forma de cuentas imitando el aspecto de los huesecillos del tarso posterior de los óvidos.
- 3(Astragalus o Tragacantha spp.) Género de hierbas, plantas y arbustos, generalmente del hemisferio norte, de la familia de las papilionáceas o fabáceas, en particular el Astracantha gummifer o Astragalus gummifer, originario de Asia menor, del que se extrae la goma tragacanto.
- 4Tipo de adorno que se ponía antiguamente en piezas de artillería, consistente en un cordón entre dos filetes.
Frequency rank: #98,113 in Spanish
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Using “astrágalo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-S-T-R-Á-G-A-L-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [asˈt̪ɾaɣ̞alo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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