escorzonera

/[eskoɾsoˈneɾa]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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escorzonera is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Scorzonera hispanica) Planta compuesta de España, perenne, que se cultiva de forma anual como hortaliza. Mide hasta 90 cm de latura, tiene flores amarillas en capítulos y raíces negras con pulpa b... Pronounced [eskoɾsoˈneɾa].

Key facts for escorzonera
PropertyValue
Headwordescorzonera
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[eskoɾsoˈneɾa]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

escorzonera is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for escorzonera is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eskoɾsoˈneɾa]. 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: "(Scorzonera hispanica) Planta compuesta de España, perenne, que se cultiva de forma anual como hortaliza. Mide hasta 90 cm de latura, tiene flores amarillas en capítulos y raíces negras con pulpa b...".

No misspelling variants are generated for escorzonera 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 escorzonera, spelled E-S-C-O-R-Z-O-N-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Scorzonera hispanica) Planta compuesta de España, perenne, que se cultiva de forma anual como hortaliza. Mide hasta 90 cm de latura, tiene flores amarillas en capítulos y raíces negras con pulpa blanca de unos 3 cm de grosor y más de 20 cm de largo. Las raíces se comen cocidas, pero también se consumen sus brotes tiernos, sus hojas, sus barbas (hojas tiernas) y sus flores. En medicina natural se ha usado como diurético y contra el estreñimiento. Su nombre escorzonera, hierba contra escuerzo, deriva de una creencia antigua de que serviría contra los venenos.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escorzonera"?
"escorzonera" is spelled E-S-C-O-R-Z-O-N-E-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [eskoɾsoˈneɾa].
What does "escorzonera" mean?
As a noun, "escorzonera" means: (Scorzonera hispanica) Planta compuesta de España, perenne, que se cultiva de forma anual como hortaliza. Mide hasta 90 cm de latura, tiene flores amarillas en capítulos y raíces negras con pulpa b...
How do you pronounce "escorzonera"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escorzonera" is [eskoɾsoˈneɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.