comadreja
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,900
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
comadreja is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Mustela spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de mamíferos mustélidos, formando un grupo cládisticamente heterogéneo, estrechamente emparentados con el visón, el armiño y el hurón. Son pequeños, de ... Pronounced [komaˈð̞ɾexa]. Often confused with comadre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comadreja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [komaˈð̞ɾexa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for comadreja is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [komaˈð̞ɾexa]. Corpus data places it at rank #48,900 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for comadreja, with forms such as "ccomadreja", "cmoadreja", and "coamdreja". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "comadre", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 comadreja, spelled C-O-M-A-D-R-E-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Mustela spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de mamíferos mustélidos, formando un grupo cládisticamente heterogéneo, estrechamente emparentados con el visón, el armiño y el hurón. Son pequeños, de cuerpo delgado y fusiforme, con la cola larga. Son rapaces cazadores, alimentándose de roedores, aves y otros pequeños mamíferos. Se los asocia tradicionalmente con la astucia y el engaño, posiblemente por su sigilo y sus hábitos nocturnos
- 2Figuradamente, persona rapaz, sagaz y malevolente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomadreja,cmoadreja,coamdreja,comaddreja,comaderja,comadreaj,comadrejja,comadrjea,comadrreja,comardeja,comdareja,commadreja,ocmadreja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "comadreja"
Frequency rank: #48,900 in Spanish
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