chicoria
The verdict
“chicoria” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Cichorium intybus) Planta herbácea perenne de la familia de las asteráceas, de hasta 1 m de altura, pubescente, de raíz gruesa y pivotante, hojas espatuladas, semicarnosas, suavemente dentadas, ba...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chicoria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃiˈkoɾja] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chicoria” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chicoria is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃiˈkoɾja]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for chicoria 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 chicoria, spelled C-H-I-C-O-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Cichorium intybus) Planta herbácea perenne de la familia de las asteráceas, de hasta 1 m de altura, pubescente, de raíz gruesa y pivotante, hojas espatuladas, semicarnosas, suavemente dentadas, basales, inflorescencias liguladas de color azul a lila, y fruto en aquenio. Procede originariamente del Viejo Mundo, donde se reproduce de manera silvestre en los prados y campos en barbecho, así como a la vera de los caminos
- 2Hojas de la achicoria₁, usadas como vegetal en ensaladas y otros platos
- 3Infusión de la raíz tostada de la achicoria₁, usada como sucedáneo o adulterante del café
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Using “chicoria”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-H-I-C-O-R-I-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t͡ʃiˈkoɾja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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