chanchito de mar

/[t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃit̪o ð̞e ˈmaɾ]/ phrase

Letters

16 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

chanchito de mar is aSpanishphrase. It means: Crustáceo pequeño que construye madrigueras en la arena. Vive a lo largo de las costas templadas occidentales de América, en playas arenosas expuestas a la resaca de la zona intermareal. Pronounced [t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃit̪o ð̞e ˈmaɾ].

Key facts for chanchito de mar
PropertyValue
Headwordchanchito de mar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃit̪o ð̞e ˈmaɾ]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chanchito de mar 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 chanchito de mar is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃit̪o ð̞e ˈmaɾ]. 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: "Crustáceo pequeño que construye madrigueras en la arena. Vive a lo largo de las costas templadas occidentales de América, en playas arenosas expuestas a la resaca de la zona intermareal.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chanchito de mar 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 chanchito de mar, spelled C-H-A-N-C-H-I-T-O- -D-E- -M-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Crustáceo pequeño que construye madrigueras en la arena. Vive a lo largo de las costas templadas occidentales de América, en playas arenosas expuestas a la resaca de la zona intermareal.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chanchito de mar"?
"chanchito de mar" is spelled C-H-A-N-C-H-I-T-O- -D-E- -M-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃit̪o ð̞e ˈmaɾ].
What does "chanchito de mar" mean?
As a phrase, "chanchito de mar" means: Crustáceo pequeño que construye madrigueras en la arena. Vive a lo largo de las costas templadas occidentales de América, en playas arenosas expuestas a la resaca de la zona intermareal.
How do you pronounce "chanchito de mar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chanchito de mar" is [t͡ʃãnʲˈt͡ʃit̪o ð̞e ˈmaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chanchito de mar" 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.