degú

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for degú is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eˈɣ̞u]. 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: "(Octodon degus) Pequeño mamífero roedor caviomorfo que vive en comunidades que cavan madrigueras. Mide entre 125 y 195 mm y su cola 105 y 165 mm. Su peso está entre los 170 y 300g. Es pariente cerc...".

No misspelling variants are generated for degú 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 degú, spelled D-E-G-Ú, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.