epazote

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for epazote is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [epaˈsot̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,165 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Dysphania ambrosioides) Planta herbácea americana de la familia de las Amarantáceas. Es una planta anual de crecimiento erecto, de hojas lanceoladas de hasta 13 cm de largo y flores pequeñas y ver...".

No misspelling variants are generated for epazote 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 epazote, spelled E-P-A-Z-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.