flor de loto
The verdict
“flor de loto” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Nelumbo nucifera) Planta herbácea acuática. Las hojas son flotantes o emergentes, peltadas, glaucas, de limbo orbicular, de 25-30-100 cm de diámetro, glabro, de borde frecuentemente ondulado, hidr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flor de loto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfloɾ ð̞e ˈlot̪o] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flor de loto” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for flor de loto is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfloɾ ð̞e ˈlot̪o]. 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: "(Nelumbo nucifera) Planta herbácea acuática. Las hojas son flotantes o emergentes, peltadas, glaucas, de limbo orbicular, de 25-30-100 cm de diámetro, glabro, de borde frecuentemente ondulado, hidr...".
No misspelling variants are generated for flor de loto 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 loto, spelled F-L-O-R- -D-E- -L-O-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Nelumbo nucifera) Planta herbácea acuática. Las hojas son flotantes o emergentes, peltadas, glaucas, de limbo orbicular, de 25-30-100 cm de diámetro, glabro, de borde frecuentemente ondulado, hidrófobo; pecíolo normalmente con acúleos, de 1 a 2 m o más de largo, fistuloso. Flores de 16-23 cm de diámetro, rosa vivo a pálido o blancas, olorosas, con pétalos cóncavos, oblongo-elípticos a obovados, 5-10 × 3-5 cm; anteras de 1-2 cm de largo; pedúnculos normalmente con acúleos, sobrepasando la altura de las hojas.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-L-O-R- -D-E- -L-O-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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