fox terrier
[ˈfoks t̪eˈrjeɾ]
The verdict
“fox terrier” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Raza de perro que era usada antiguamente para hacer salir a los zorros, que eran perseguidos por perros de rastreo, de sus escondites.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fox terrier |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfoks t̪eˈrjeɾ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fox terrier” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fox terrier is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoks t̪eˈrjeɾ]. 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: "Raza de perro que era usada antiguamente para hacer salir a los zorros, que eran perseguidos por perros de rastreo, de sus escondites.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fox terrier 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 fox terrier, spelled F-O-X- -T-E-R-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Raza de perro que era usada antiguamente para hacer salir a los zorros, que eran perseguidos por perros de rastreo, de sus escondites.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-O-X- -T-E-R-R-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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