dátil de mar

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for dátil de mar is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪at̪il̪ d̪e ˈmaɾ]. 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: "Molusco bivalvo parecido al dátil en el color de las conchas y en la figura, pero más largo. Es comestible y se encuentra dentro de algunas rocas muy porosas, que perfora.".

No misspelling variants are generated for dátil de mar 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 dátil de mar, spelled D-Á-T-I-L- -D-E- -M-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.