espárrago
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#68,555
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
espárrago is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Asparagus officinalis grupo ‘Asparagaceae’) Planta lilácea, con tallos blancos y rectos, ramoso, de hojas acirculares y en hacecillos sus cabezuelas son de color verde morado y comestibles. Pronounced [esˈparaɣ̞o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espárrago |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈparaɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for espárrago is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈparaɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #68,555 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for espárrago in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 espárrago, spelled E-S-P-Á-R-R-A-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Asparagus officinalis grupo ‘Asparagaceae’) Planta lilácea, con tallos blancos y rectos, ramoso, de hojas acirculares y en hacecillos sus cabezuelas son de color verde morado y comestibles.
- 2Dícese del turión o yema comestible que produce la esparraguera.
- 3Palo largo y recto que se usa para asegurar entoldados.
- 4Madero atravesado por estacas pequeñas a distancias iguales, para que sirva de escalera.
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Frequency rank: #68,555 in Spanish
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