cerdo hormiguero

/[ˈseɾð̞o oɾmiˈɣ̞eɾo]/ phrase

Letters

16 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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cerdo hormiguero is aSpanishphrase. It means: (Orycteropus afer) Mamífero placentario nativo de África. Es de color pardo en la parte superior, y rojiza en la inferior. Llega a medir hasta 2,2 m de largo. Tiene un hocico parecido al del cerdo ... Pronounced [ˈseɾð̞o oɾmiˈɣ̞eɾo].

Key facts for cerdo hormiguero
PropertyValue
Headwordcerdo hormiguero
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈseɾð̞o oɾmiˈɣ̞eɾo]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cerdo hormiguero is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cerdo hormiguero is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈseɾð̞o oɾmiˈɣ̞eɾo]. 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: "(Orycteropus afer) Mamífero placentario nativo de África. Es de color pardo en la parte superior, y rojiza en la inferior. Llega a medir hasta 2,2 m de largo. Tiene un hocico parecido al del cerdo ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for cerdo hormiguero 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 cerdo hormiguero, spelled C-E-R-D-O- -H-O-R-M-I-G-U-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Orycteropus afer) Mamífero placentario nativo de África. Es de color pardo en la parte superior, y rojiza en la inferior. Llega a medir hasta 2,2 m de largo. Tiene un hocico parecido al del cerdo y garras fuertes; pasa el día dentro de madrigueras subterráneas. Son animales temerosos y solitarios. Las extremidades anteriores tienen 4 dedos y las posteriores 5 dedos.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cerdo hormiguero"?
"cerdo hormiguero" is spelled C-E-R-D-O- -H-O-R-M-I-G-U-E-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈseɾð̞o oɾmiˈɣ̞eɾo].
What does "cerdo hormiguero" mean?
As a phrase, "cerdo hormiguero" means: (Orycteropus afer) Mamífero placentario nativo de África. Es de color pardo en la parte superior, y rojiza en la inferior. Llega a medir hasta 2,2 m de largo. Tiene un hocico parecido al del cerdo ...
How do you pronounce "cerdo hormiguero"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cerdo hormiguero" is [ˈseɾð̞o oɾmiˈɣ̞eɾo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.