fúrcula
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
fúrcula is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hueso en forma de horquilla que poseen únicamente las aves y los dinosaurios terópodos, formado por la fusión de las dos clavículas. Pronounced [ˈfuɾkula].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fúrcula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfuɾkula] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for fúrcula is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfuɾkula]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for fúrcula 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 fúrcula, spelled F-Ú-R-C-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hueso en forma de horquilla que poseen únicamente las aves y los dinosaurios terópodos, formado por la fusión de las dos clavículas.
- 2Apéndice abdominal en forma de horquilla que poseen muchas de las especies de la subclase Collembola con función de desplazamiento.
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