corneja
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Language
Spanish
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corneja is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Corvus corone) Especie de cuervo que alcanza los 45 a 50 cm de longitud y 1 metro o algo más de envergadura, con plumaje totalmente negro y de brillo metálico en el cuello y el dorso. El pico está... Pronounced [koɾˈnexa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corneja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koɾˈnexa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for corneja is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koɾˈnexa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for corneja 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 corneja, spelled C-O-R-N-E-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Corvus corone) Especie de cuervo que alcanza los 45 a 50 cm de longitud y 1 metro o algo más de envergadura, con plumaje totalmente negro y de brillo metálico en el cuello y el dorso. El pico está un poco encorvado en la mandíbula superior, y las alas plegadas no alcanzan el extremo de la cola. Vive en el sur y oeste de Europa y mora en algunas regiones de Asia.
- 2(Otus scops) Ave de rapiña parecida al búho, pero más pequeña, de plumaje pardo o castaño ceniciento, con manchas grises o negras, en la cabeza dos plumas en forma de cuernecillos, cola corta y cuadrada, alas largas y pico doblado desde la base. Abunda en España.
- 3(Strix rufipes) Ave rapaz nocturna estrigiforme con rayas alternadas entre gris y blanco, presente en Chile y Argentina.
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