hierba del chancho

/[ˈjeɾβ̞a ð̞elʲ ˈt͡ʃãnʲt͡ʃo]/ phrase

The verdict

“hierba del chancho” 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
18
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Calandrinia sericea) Planta herbácea de la familia de las portulacáceas, que produce flores de color violeta pálido.

Key facts for hierba del chancho
PropertyValue
Headwordhierba del chancho
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈjeɾβ̞a ð̞elʲ ˈt͡ʃãnʲt͡ʃo]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “hierba del chancho” sits in Spanish frequency

hierba del chancho falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for hierba del chancho is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeɾβ̞a ð̞elʲ ˈt͡ʃãnʲt͡ʃo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for hierba del chancho 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 hierba del chancho, spelled H-I-E-R-B-A- -D-E-L- -C-H-A-N-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Calandrinia sericea) Planta herbácea de la familia de las portulacáceas, que produce flores de color violeta pálido.
  2. 2
    (Hypochoeris acaulis) Planta herbácea perenne, de la familia de las asteráceas. Sus hojas son lobuladas, están cubiertas de pelos y crecen en roseta, su flor es una cabezuela amarilla.
  3. 3
    (Hypochoeris radicata) Planta herbácea perenne, de la familia de las asteráceas. Sus hojas son lobuladas, están cubiertas de pelos y crecen en roseta, su flor es una cabezuela amarilla.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hierba del chancho"?
"hierba del chancho" is spelled H-I-E-R-B-A- -D-E-L- -C-H-A-N-C-H-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈjeɾβ̞a ð̞elʲ ˈt͡ʃãnʲt͡ʃo].
What does "hierba del chancho" mean?
As a phrase, "hierba del chancho" means: (Calandrinia sericea) Planta herbácea de la familia de las portulacáceas, que produce flores de color violeta pálido.
How do you pronounce "hierba del chancho"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hierba del chancho" is [ˈjeɾβ̞a ð̞elʲ ˈt͡ʃãnʲt͡ʃo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “hierba del chancho”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is H-I-E-R-B-A- -D-E-L- -C-H-A-N-C-H-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈjeɾβ̞a ð̞elʲ ˈt͡ʃãnʲt͡ʃo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.