clavel alemán
[klaˈβ̞el aleˈmãn]
The verdict
“clavel alemán” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Raza bovina introducida hace más de 150 años por los emigrantes alemanes a Chile que prevalece principalmente al sur del país y en otros países como Argentina y Uruguay. Se destina principalmente a...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clavel alemán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [klaˈβ̞el aleˈmãn] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clavel alemán” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for clavel alemán is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [klaˈβ̞el aleˈmãn]. 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: "Raza bovina introducida hace más de 150 años por los emigrantes alemanes a Chile que prevalece principalmente al sur del país y en otros países como Argentina y Uruguay. Se destina principalmente a...".
No misspelling variants are generated for clavel alemán 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 clavel alemán, spelled C-L-A-V-E-L- -A-L-E-M-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Raza bovina introducida hace más de 150 años por los emigrantes alemanes a Chile que prevalece principalmente al sur del país y en otros países como Argentina y Uruguay. Se destina principalmente a la producción de carne y, en segundo lugar, a la de leche. Se distingue por sus manchas irregulares en todo el cuerpo de color café, y se caracteriza por su rusticidad, condición que le permite adaptarse a una gran variedad de climas.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-L-A-V-E-L- -A-L-E-M-Á-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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