gusano de seda
[guˈsano ð̞e ˈseð̞a]
The verdict
“gusano de seda” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Bombyx mori) Larva eruciforme del insecto lepidóptero que produce capullos de seda.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gusano de seda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [guˈsano ð̞e ˈseð̞a] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gusano de seda” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gusano de seda is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [guˈsano ð̞e ˈseð̞a]. 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: "(Bombyx mori) Larva eruciforme del insecto lepidóptero que produce capullos de seda.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gusano de seda 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 gusano de seda, spelled G-U-S-A-N-O- -D-E- -S-E-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Bombyx mori) Larva eruciforme del insecto lepidóptero que produce capullos de seda.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-U-S-A-N-O- -D-E- -S-E-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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