daruma

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for daruma is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪aˈɾuma]. 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: "Muñeca hueca y redonda, generalmente de color rojo, sin brazos ni piernas, que representa a Bodhidharma (el fundador del budismo zen).".

No misspelling variants are generated for daruma 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 daruma, spelled D-A-R-U-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.