hierba mora
The verdict
“hierba mora” 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: (Prunella vulgaris) Hierba perenne de la familia de las lamiáceas, de flores color violeta y fruto en núcula. Se usa como cicatrizante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hierba mora |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈjeɾβ̞a ˈmoɾa] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hierba mora” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hierba mora is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeɾβ̞a ˈmoɾa]. 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 hierba mora 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 mora, spelled H-I-E-R-B-A- -M-O-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Prunella vulgaris) Hierba perenne de la familia de las lamiáceas, de flores color violeta y fruto en núcula. Se usa como cicatrizante.
- 2(Solanum nigrum) Hierba de la familia de las solanáceas, originaria de América del Sur y distribuida mundialmente en la actualidad. Su fruto es una baya que recuerda a un tomatillo pequeño, muy tóxica por su alto contenido en solanina.
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Using “hierba mora”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-I-E-R-B-A- -M-O-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈjeɾβ̞a ˈmoɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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