babirusa

/[baβ̞iˈɾusa]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

babirusa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cerdo salvaje, de carne comestible, que se cría en Asia. Pronounced [baβ̞iˈɾusa].

Key facts for babirusa
PropertyValue
Headwordbabirusa
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[baβ̞iˈɾusa]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

babirusa is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for babirusa is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baβ̞iˈɾusa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cerdo salvaje, de carne comestible, que se cría en Asia.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for babirusa 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 babirusa, spelled B-A-B-I-R-U-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cerdo salvaje, de carne comestible, que se cría en Asia.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "babirusa"?
"babirusa" is spelled B-A-B-I-R-U-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is [baβ̞iˈɾusa].
What does "babirusa" mean?
As a noun, "babirusa" means: Cerdo salvaje, de carne comestible, que se cría en Asia.
How do you pronounce "babirusa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "babirusa" is [baβ̞iˈɾusa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "babirusa" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.