lengua de vaca

/[ˈlẽŋgwa ð̞e ˈβ̞aka]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

lengua de vaca is aSpanishphrase. It means: (Echium vulgare) Hierba silvestre bianual de la familia de las boragináceas. Sus hojas, cubiertas de pelos ásperos, crecen en una roseta basal, sus flores son azules y crecen sobre largos tallos ci... Pronounced [ˈlẽŋgwa ð̞e ˈβ̞aka].

Key facts for lengua de vaca
PropertyValue
Headwordlengua de vaca
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈlẽŋgwa ð̞e ˈβ̞aka]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

lengua de vaca 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 lengua de vaca is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlẽŋgwa ð̞e ˈβ̞aka]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lengua de vaca 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 lengua de vaca, spelled L-E-N-G-U-A- -D-E- -V-A-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Echium vulgare) Hierba silvestre bianual de la familia de las boragináceas. Sus hojas, cubiertas de pelos ásperos, crecen en una roseta basal, sus flores son azules y crecen sobre largos tallos cilíndricos. Es tóxica.
  2. 2
    Hongo comestible de Chile.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lengua de vaca"?
"lengua de vaca" is spelled L-E-N-G-U-A- -D-E- -V-A-C-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈlẽŋgwa ð̞e ˈβ̞aka].
What does "lengua de vaca" mean?
As a phrase, "lengua de vaca" means: (Echium vulgare) Hierba silvestre bianual de la familia de las boragináceas. Sus hojas, cubiertas de pelos ásperos, crecen en una roseta basal, sus flores son azules y crecen sobre largos tallos ci...
How do you pronounce "lengua de vaca"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lengua de vaca" is [ˈlẽŋgwa ð̞e ˈβ̞aka]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lengua de vaca" 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.