flor de Jamaica
The verdict
“flor de Jamaica” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Hibiscus sabdariffa) Hibisco de la familia de las Malváceas, originario de franja norte tropical de África que se cultiva con éxito en México, América Central y en el sur y sudeste asiático, inclu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flor de Jamaica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfloɾ ð̞e xaˈmajka] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flor de Jamaica” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for flor de Jamaica is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfloɾ ð̞e xaˈmajka]. 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: "(Hibiscus sabdariffa) Hibisco de la familia de las Malváceas, originario de franja norte tropical de África que se cultiva con éxito en México, América Central y en el sur y sudeste asiático, inclu...".
No misspelling variants are generated for flor de Jamaica 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 Jamaica, spelled F-L-O-R- -D-E- -J-A-M-A-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Hibiscus sabdariffa) Hibisco de la familia de las Malváceas, originario de franja norte tropical de África que se cultiva con éxito en México, América Central y en el sur y sudeste asiático, incluido el sur de China. Es una planta herbácea anual que puede alcanzar de 3 a 5 metros de altura. Las hojas, trilobuladas o pentalobuladas, tienen unos 15 cm de longitud, alternas en el tallo, y las flores, de color rojo en la base y más pálido en los extremos, tienen de 8 a 10 cm de diámetro. Su cáliz, carnoso y de un color rojo intenso, se recoge en el momento en que alcanza un tono vinoso y se deja secar para su uso como infusión.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-L-O-R- -D-E- -J-A-M-A-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈfloɾ ð̞e xaˈmajka] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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