hierba loca
The verdict
“hierba loca” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Astragalus spp.) Hierbas de la familia de las leguminosas que contienen alcaloides tóxicos para el ganado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hierba loca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈjeɾβ̞a ˈloka] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hierba loca” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hierba loca is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeɾβ̞a ˈloka]. 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 loca 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 loca, spelled H-I-E-R-B-A- -L-O-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Astragalus spp.) Hierbas de la familia de las leguminosas que contienen alcaloides tóxicos para el ganado.
- 2(Gaultheria insana) Arbusto de la familia de las ericáceas, con flores campanuladas blancas y fruto tóxicos. Se afirma que su consumo puede provocar locura.
- 3(Hyoscyamus niger) Planta de la familia de las Solanáceas, anual o bianual, de casi un metro de altura, cubierta de pelos pegajosos, con un olor desagradable y altamente tóxica. Sus principios activos, la hioscina y la iosiamina, tienen amplio uso en productos farmacéuticos. En medicina natural debe usarse con cuidado por su toxicidad y propiedades alucinógenas; tiene uso contra golpes, heridas, forúnculos, asma, gota, reuma y neuralgias.
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Using “hierba loca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-I-E-R-B-A- -L-O-C-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈjeɾβ̞a ˈloka] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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