buitre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,289
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
buitre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de una veintena de especies de aves rapaces de hábitos carroñeros, de característico cuello pelado; forman un grupo polifilético, en el que se cuentan aves de la familia de los accipítri... Pronounced [ˈbwit̪ɾe]. Often confused with buitres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buitre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbwit̪ɾe] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for buitre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbwit̪ɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,289 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for buitre, with forms such as "bbuitre", "biutre", and "buirte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "buitres", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 buitre, spelled B-U-I-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de una veintena de especies de aves rapaces de hábitos carroñeros, de característico cuello pelado; forman un grupo polifilético, en el que se cuentan aves de la familia de los accipítridos en el Viejo Mundo, y de la familia de los catártidos en el Nuevo.
- 2Por extensión, persona rapaz y codiciosa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbuitre,biutre,buirte,buiter,buitrre,buittre,butire,ubitre,vuitre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for buitre
Misspelling Variants of "buitre"
Frequency rank: #20,289 in Spanish
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