búho de Virginia
[ˈbuo ð̞e β̞iɾˈxinja]
The verdict
“búho de Virginia” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Bubo virginianus). Búho solitario de gran tamaño natural de América, ampliamente extendido en el continente en varias subespecies. Tiene el rostro rojizo, la garganta blanca, y un color variable e...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | búho de Virginia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbuo ð̞e β̞iɾˈxinja] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “búho de Virginia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for búho de Virginia is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbuo ð̞e β̞iɾˈxinja]. 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: "(Bubo virginianus). Búho solitario de gran tamaño natural de América, ampliamente extendido en el continente en varias subespecies. Tiene el rostro rojizo, la garganta blanca, y un color variable e...".
No misspelling variants are generated for búho de Virginia 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 búho de Virginia, spelled B-Ú-H-O- -D-E- -V-I-R-G-I-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Bubo virginianus). Búho solitario de gran tamaño natural de América, ampliamente extendido en el continente en varias subespecies. Tiene el rostro rojizo, la garganta blanca, y un color variable entre el pardogrisáceo claro y el castaño muy oscuro en el lomo y alas. Es sedentario, habitando en zonas rurales y urbanas indistintamente; un voraz predador, caza pequeños mamíferos y otras aves por las noches haciendo uso de su excelente visión nocturna. Su llamada es grave y sonora, y el tono espectral de la misma ha llevado a su asociación con los espíritus de los difuntos.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-Ú-H-O- -D-E- -V-I-R-G-I-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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