jara negra
The verdict
“jara negra” 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
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Cistus ladanifer) Arbusto perenne, de la familia de las Cistáceas. Mide desde metro y medio a tres metros de altura, despide un fuerte olor a ládano (de ahí su nombre científico ladanifer). Tiene ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jara negra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈxaɾa ˈneɣ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jara negra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jara negra is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxaɾa ˈneɣ̞ɾa]. 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 jara negra 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 jara negra, spelled J-A-R-A- -N-E-G-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Cistus ladanifer) Arbusto perenne, de la familia de las Cistáceas. Mide desde metro y medio a tres metros de altura, despide un fuerte olor a ládano (de ahí su nombre científico ladanifer). Tiene unas flores blancas grandes y hermosas. No requiere mucho riego, por lo que se adapta bien a terrenos en pendiente mal irrigados. Se cultiva como planta ornamental y crece silvestre por la región mediterránea.
- 2(Cistus monspeliensis) Planta o arbusto de metro y medio de altura, con un color verde oscuro, ramas vellosas y pegajosas, con un olor a ládano. En España se la encuentra desde las Islas Canarias hasta la costa mediterránea, abunda en la Sierra Morena y Andalucía.
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Using “jara negra”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is J-A-R-A- -N-E-G-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈxaɾa ˈneɣ̞ɾa] (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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