koala
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,719
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
koala is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Phascolarctos cinereus) Mamífero marsupial nativo de Australia, el último representante supérstite de la familia Phascolarctidae, de cuerpo robusto de hasta 15 kg de peso, cubierto de denso pelaje... Pronounced [koˈala].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | koala |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈala] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for koala is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈala]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,719 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for koala 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 koala, spelled K-O-A-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Phascolarctos cinereus) Mamífero marsupial nativo de Australia, el último representante supérstite de la familia Phascolarctidae, de cuerpo robusto de hasta 15 kg de peso, cubierto de denso pelaje gris, y miembros cortos dotados de fuertes garras, incluyendo dos pulgares oponibles. Es arborícola y de metabolismo muy lento.
- 2Pequeño bolso que se ata a la altura de la cintura y se lleva por delante.
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Frequency rank: #51,719 in Spanish
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