capibara

/[kapiˈβ̞aɾa]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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capibara is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Especie de roedor viviente de mayor tamaño y peso del mundo. Pertenece a la familia de los cávidos. Habita en manadas en regiones de climas tropicales y templados siempr... Pronounced [kapiˈβ̞aɾa].

Key facts for capibara
PropertyValue
Headwordcapibara
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kapiˈβ̞aɾa]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

capibara 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 capibara is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kapiˈβ̞aɾa]. 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: "(Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Especie de roedor viviente de mayor tamaño y peso del mundo. Pertenece a la familia de los cávidos. Habita en manadas en regiones de climas tropicales y templados siempr...".

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

Definition

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    (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Especie de roedor viviente de mayor tamaño y peso del mundo. Pertenece a la familia de los cávidos. Habita en manadas en regiones de climas tropicales y templados siempre cerca del agua en humedales del este de Panamá y en Sudamérica, al norte y oriente de los Andes, hasta el centro de la Argentina. Posee un cuerpo pesado en forma de barril y una cabeza pequeña, con un pelaje pardo rojizo en la parte superior del cuerpo que se vuelve pardo amarillo en la parte inferior. Pueden crecer hasta 130 cm de largo y llegar a pesar 85 kg.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "capibara"?
"capibara" is spelled C-A-P-I-B-A-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kapiˈβ̞aɾa].
What does "capibara" mean?
As a noun, "capibara" means: (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Especie de roedor viviente de mayor tamaño y peso del mundo. Pertenece a la familia de los cávidos. Habita en manadas en regiones de climas tropicales y templados siempr...
How do you pronounce "capibara"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "capibara" is [kapiˈβ̞aɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "capibara" 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.