invunche

/[ĩmˈbũnʲt͡ʃe]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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0

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invunche is aSpanishnoun. It means: En la mitología mapuche, ser deforme con una pierna sobre la espalda. Aparece en los cuentos como un monstruo que secuestra personas para llevarlas a su cueva y devorarlas. Pronounced [ĩmˈbũnʲt͡ʃe].

Key facts for invunche
PropertyValue
Headwordinvunche
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ĩmˈbũnʲt͡ʃe]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

invunche is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for invunche is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmˈbũnʲt͡ʃe]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for invunche 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 invunche, spelled I-N-V-U-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En la mitología mapuche, ser deforme con una pierna sobre la espalda. Aparece en los cuentos como un monstruo que secuestra personas para llevarlas a su cueva y devorarlas.
  2. 2
    En la mitología chilota, ser deforme idéntico al anterior, pero que tiene la función de cuidar la entrada a la cueva de los brujos. Es un niño primogénito raptado, o comprado a cambio de favores de los brujos. Los brujos le quiebran una pierna y se la tuercen sobre la espalda, por lo que anda a tres patas sobre las manos y un pie; solo emite sonidos guturales, ya que los brujos le parten la lengua en dos para que no pueda revelar sus secretos.
  3. 3
    Persona o cosa deforme y monstruosa.
  4. 4
    Lío difícil o imposible de resolver.
  5. 5
    Maleficio.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "invunche"?
"invunche" is spelled I-N-V-U-N-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩmˈbũnʲt͡ʃe].
What does "invunche" mean?
As a noun, "invunche" means: En la mitología mapuche, ser deforme con una pierna sobre la espalda. Aparece en los cuentos como un monstruo que secuestra personas para llevarlas a su cueva y devorarlas.
How do you pronounce "invunche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "invunche" is [ĩmˈbũnʲt͡ʃe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "invunche" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.