aurícula
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#75,162
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
aurícula is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cavidad superior del corazón de los mamíferos, aves y reptiles, que recibe la sangre del cuerpo y la impulsa hacia el ventrículo. En el hombre y demás mamíferos está en número par, separados ambas ... Pronounced [awˈɾikula].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aurícula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [awˈɾikula] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aurícula is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [awˈɾikula]. Corpus data places it at rank #75,162 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for aurícula 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 aurícula, spelled A-U-R-Í-C-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cavidad superior del corazón de los mamíferos, aves y reptiles, que recibe la sangre del cuerpo y la impulsa hacia el ventrículo. En el hombre y demás mamíferos está en número par, separados ambas aurículas por un septo. La aurícula derecha lleva la sangre venosa hacia el ventrículo derecho, en tanto que la aurícula izquierda, recibe la sangre arterial de los pulmones y la lleva al ventrículo izquierdo.
- 2Prolongación de la parte inferior del limbo de las hojas, terminadas en punta, que antiguamente se comparaba con la forma de la oreja o el corazón.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #75,162 in Spanish
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