belladona

Rare enough to double-check

belladona is uncommon Spanish at frequency #78,897 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [beʝaˈð̞ona]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Atropa belladonna) Arbusto de las solanaceas, con alcaloides tropánicos".

Zero misspellings are on record for belladona in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is belladona, spelled B-E-L-L-A-D-O-N-A.