cotorra
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,179
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cotorra is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Psittacidae) Cualquiera de unas 350 especies de aves que habitan las áreas tropicales y subtropicales de todo el mundo. Suelen tener el plumaje colorido, siendo frecuente en muchas especies las pl... Pronounced [koˈt̪ora].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotorra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈt̪ora] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for cotorra is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈt̪ora]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,179 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cotorra 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 cotorra, spelled C-O-T-O-R-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Psittacidae) Cualquiera de unas 350 especies de aves que habitan las áreas tropicales y subtropicales de todo el mundo. Suelen tener el plumaje colorido, siendo frecuente en muchas especies las plumas de color verde o rojo. Se alimentan principalmente de frutos y semillas, que pueden triturar con sus picos curvos y fuertes; sus patas tienen cuatro dedos opuestos en pares y su cola es larga. Por la conformación de su lengua, muchas especies son capaces de imitar el lenguaje humano. Se crían como mascotas, pero también son perseguidos por los daños que causan en los cultivos.
- 2Urraca.
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Frequency rank: #52,179 in Spanish
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