eneldo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for eneldo is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈnel̪d̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,153 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Anethum graveolens) Hierba de la familia de las umbelíferas, emparentada con el hinojo y el anís, usada como aliño, con tallo ramoso, de seis a ocho decímetros de altura; hojas divididas en lacini...".

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