diente de león

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for diente de león is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪jẽn̪t̪e ð̞e leˈõn]. 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: "(Taraxacum officinale) Planta herbácea, de la familia de las asteráceas, de característica flor amarilla, que se transforma en una característica esfera blanquecina formada por los largos vilanos u...".

No misspelling variants are generated for diente de león 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 diente de león, spelled D-I-E-N-T-E- -D-E- -L-E-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.