coquina
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7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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coquina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Género de moluscos bivalvos de concha fina, oval y deprimida, comunes en las costas de la península ibérica, pertenecientes al orden Veneroida. Se encuentran frecuentemente en los fangos de marisma... Pronounced [koˈkina].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coquina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈkina] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for coquina is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈkina]. 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: "Género de moluscos bivalvos de concha fina, oval y deprimida, comunes en las costas de la península ibérica, pertenecientes al orden Veneroida. Se encuentran frecuentemente en los fangos de marisma...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for coquina 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 coquina, spelled C-O-Q-U-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Género de moluscos bivalvos de concha fina, oval y deprimida, comunes en las costas de la península ibérica, pertenecientes al orden Veneroida. Se encuentran frecuentemente en los fangos de marismas, zonas salobres y, sobre todo, en zonas de playa. Se trata de un manjar muy apreciado como aperitivo que se acompaña con vinos de la zona y se suele cocinar únicamente con ajo, perejil y aceite. Su diámetro es de unos 5 cm y su captura la realizan los coquineros, mariscadores que durante la bajamar capturan este tipo de molusco. También pueden extraerse en pequeños barcos por el sistema de arrastre.
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