cicuta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#70,095
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cicuta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hierba de la familia de las umbelíferas, de unos dos metros de altura, con tallo rollizo, estriado, hueco, manchado de color purpúreo en la base y muy ramoso en lo alto; hojas blandas, fétidas, ver... Pronounced [siˈkut̪a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cicuta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈkut̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cicuta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siˈkut̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,095 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cicuta 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 cicuta, spelled C-I-C-U-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hierba de la familia de las umbelíferas, de unos dos metros de altura, con tallo rollizo, estriado, hueco, manchado de color purpúreo en la base y muy ramoso en lo alto; hojas blandas, fétidas, verdinegras, triangulares y divididas en gajos elípticos, puntiagudos y dentados; flores blancas, pequeñas y semilla negruzca menuda. El zumo de esta hierba, cocido hasta la consistencia de miel dura, es venenoso y se usa interiormente, en corta cantidad, como medicina muy activa.
- 2Veneno que se prepara con la cicuta.
Frequency rank: #70,095 in Spanish
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