chotacabras

/[t͡ʃot̪aˈkaβ̞ɾas]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chotacabras is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Caprimulginae, Eurostopodinae) Ave nocturna de mediano tamaño con las alas largas y puntiagudas, patas cortas y pico muy corto aunque muy amplio, que anida en el suelo. Su suave plumaje está color... Pronounced [t͡ʃot̪aˈkaβ̞ɾas].

Key facts for chotacabras
PropertyValue
Headwordchotacabras
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[t͡ʃot̪aˈkaβ̞ɾas]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chotacabras 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 chotacabras is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃot̪aˈkaβ̞ɾas]. 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: "(Caprimulginae, Eurostopodinae) Ave nocturna de mediano tamaño con las alas largas y puntiagudas, patas cortas y pico muy corto aunque muy amplio, que anida en el suelo. Su suave plumaje está color...".

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

Definition

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    (Caprimulginae, Eurostopodinae) Ave nocturna de mediano tamaño con las alas largas y puntiagudas, patas cortas y pico muy corto aunque muy amplio, que anida en el suelo. Su suave plumaje está coloreado para camuflarse entre la hojarasca del suelo.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chotacabras"?
"chotacabras" is spelled C-H-O-T-A-C-A-B-R-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [t͡ʃot̪aˈkaβ̞ɾas].
What does "chotacabras" mean?
As a noun, "chotacabras" means: (Caprimulginae, Eurostopodinae) Ave nocturna de mediano tamaño con las alas largas y puntiagudas, patas cortas y pico muy corto aunque muy amplio, que anida en el suelo. Su suave plumaje está color...
How do you pronounce "chotacabras"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chotacabras" is [t͡ʃot̪aˈkaβ̞ɾas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chotacabras" 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.