avestruz

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for avestruz is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aβ̞esˈt̪ɾus]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,979 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Struthio camelus) Ave corredora, del orden estrucioniformes, de la familia estruciónidos. Es el ave viviente de mayor tamaño, de patas robustas terminadas en dos dedos, con el interior provisto de...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for avestruz, with forms such as "abestruz", "aevstruz", and "avesrtuz". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is avestruz, spelled A-V-E-S-T-R-U-Z.