flor de coral
The verdict
“flor de coral” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Erythrina crista-galli). Árbol nativo del río de la Plata. Lo más característico son las flores rojas, que se utilizan para teñir telas y también son ornamentales.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flor de coral |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfloɾ ð̞e koˈɾal] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flor de coral” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for flor de coral is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfloɾ ð̞e koˈɾal]. 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: "(Erythrina crista-galli). Árbol nativo del río de la Plata. Lo más característico son las flores rojas, que se utilizan para teñir telas y también son ornamentales.".
No misspelling variants are generated for flor de coral 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 flor de coral, spelled F-L-O-R- -D-E- -C-O-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Erythrina crista-galli). Árbol nativo del río de la Plata. Lo más característico son las flores rojas, que se utilizan para teñir telas y también son ornamentales.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-L-O-R- -D-E- -C-O-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈfloɾ ð̞e koˈɾal] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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