junquillo
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Language
Spanish
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junquillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Planta de jardinería, especie de narciso, de flores muy olorosas de color amarillo, cuya caña o tallo es liso y parecido al junco. Pronounced [xũŋˈkiʝo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | junquillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [xũŋˈkiʝo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for junquillo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xũŋˈkiʝo]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for junquillo 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 junquillo, spelled J-U-N-Q-U-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Planta de jardinería, especie de narciso, de flores muy olorosas de color amarillo, cuya caña o tallo es liso y parecido al junco.
- 2Nombre de diversas plantas vivaces, de la familia de las palmas, con tallos que alcanzan gran longitud, nudosos a trechos, delgados, sarmentosos y muy fuertes; hojas abrazadoras en los nudos, lisas y flexibles, zarcillos espinosos, flores de tres pétalos, y fruto abayado y rojo como la cereza. Vive en los bosques de la India y otros países de Oriente, y de su tallo se hacen bastones.
- 3Moldura de perfil semicircular, como el toro ó bocel, pero mucho menor.
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