ibis
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,991
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ibis is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Threskiornithinae) Ave del orden de las zancudas, de unos seis decímetros de largo desde la cabeza hasta lo último de la cola, y próximamente igual altura; pico largo, de punta encorvada y obtusa;... Pronounced [ˈiβ̞is].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ibis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈiβ̞is] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ibis is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈiβ̞is]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,991 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Threskiornithinae) Ave del orden de las zancudas, de unos seis decímetros de largo desde la cabeza hasta lo último de la cola, y próximamente igual altura; pico largo, de punta encorvada y obtusa;...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ibis in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 ibis, spelled I-B-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Threskiornithinae) Ave del orden de las zancudas, de unos seis decímetros de largo desde la cabeza hasta lo último de la cola, y próximamente igual altura; pico largo, de punta encorvada y obtusa; parte de la cabeza y toda la garganta desnudas; plumaje blanco, excepto la cabeza, cuello, cola y extremidad de las alas, donde es negro. Vive principalmente de moluscos fluviales, pero los antiguos egipcios, atendiendo las épocas de aparición del ave en las orillas del Nilo, creían que se alimentaba de los reptiles que infectan el país después de las inundaciones periódicas del río, y por ello la veneraban.
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Frequency rank: #50,991 in Spanish
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