boca de dragón

[ˈboka ð̞e ð̞ɾaˈɣ̞õn]

/[ˈboka ð̞e ð̞ɾaˈɣ̞õn]/ phrase

The verdict

“boca de dragón” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Antirrhinum majus) Planta cultivada en jardinería de la familia Plantaginaceae. Tallos paralelos verticales de de un metro de altura, hojas alternas lineares, inflorescencia en racimos terminales ...

Key facts for boca de dragón
PropertyValue
Headwordboca de dragón
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈboka ð̞e ð̞ɾaˈɣ̞õn]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “boca de dragón” sits in Spanish frequency

boca de dragón falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for boca de dragón is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈboka ð̞e ð̞ɾaˈɣ̞õn]. 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: "(Antirrhinum majus) Planta cultivada en jardinería de la familia Plantaginaceae. Tallos paralelos verticales de de un metro de altura, hojas alternas lineares, inflorescencia en racimos terminales ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for boca de dragón 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 boca de dragón, spelled B-O-C-A- -D-E- -D-R-A-G-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Antirrhinum majus) Planta cultivada en jardinería de la familia Plantaginaceae. Tallos paralelos verticales de de un metro de altura, hojas alternas lineares, inflorescencia en racimos terminales de colores que van del blanco, pasando por el amarillo, hasta el rojo obscuro. Si se aprieta la flor lateralmente, esta se abre mostrando su interior.

Synonyms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "boca de dragón"?
"boca de dragón" is spelled B-O-C-A- -D-E- -D-R-A-G-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈboka ð̞e ð̞ɾaˈɣ̞õn].
What does "boca de dragón" mean?
As a phrase, "boca de dragón" means: (Antirrhinum majus) Planta cultivada en jardinería de la familia Plantaginaceae. Tallos paralelos verticales de de un metro de altura, hojas alternas lineares, inflorescencia en racimos terminales ...
How do you pronounce "boca de dragón"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "boca de dragón" is [ˈboka ð̞e ð̞ɾaˈɣ̞õn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “boca de dragón”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is B-O-C-A- -D-E- -D-R-A-G-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈboka ð̞e ð̞ɾaˈɣ̞õn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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