lepisma del azúcar

/[leˈpisma ð̞el aˈsukaɾ]/ phrase

The verdict

“lepisma del azúcar” 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
18
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Lepisma saccharinum) Especie cosmopolita de insecto nocturno tisanuro procedente de América. Es de color plateado, tiene patas muy cortas y antenas muy largas, cuerpo cilíndrico que se va estrecha...

Key facts for lepisma del azúcar
PropertyValue
Headwordlepisma del azúcar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[leˈpisma ð̞el aˈsukaɾ]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “lepisma del azúcar” sits in Spanish frequency

lepisma del azúcar falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for lepisma del azúcar is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [leˈpisma ð̞el aˈsukaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Lepisma saccharinum) Especie cosmopolita de insecto nocturno tisanuro procedente de América. Es de color plateado, tiene patas muy cortas y antenas muy largas, cuerpo cilíndrico que se va estrecha...".

No misspelling variants are generated for lepisma del azúcar 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 lepisma del azúcar, spelled L-E-P-I-S-M-A- -D-E-L- -A-Z-Ú-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Lepisma saccharinum) Especie cosmopolita de insecto nocturno tisanuro procedente de América. Es de color plateado, tiene patas muy cortas y antenas muy largas, cuerpo cilíndrico que se va estrechando posteriormente hasta quedar rematado por tres prolongaciones articuladas. Se alimentan de muy variadas materias: cartón, papel, azúcar, almidón y cuero.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lepisma del azúcar"?
"lepisma del azúcar" is spelled L-E-P-I-S-M-A- -D-E-L- -A-Z-Ú-C-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [leˈpisma ð̞el aˈsukaɾ].
What does "lepisma del azúcar" mean?
As a phrase, "lepisma del azúcar" means: (Lepisma saccharinum) Especie cosmopolita de insecto nocturno tisanuro procedente de América. Es de color plateado, tiene patas muy cortas y antenas muy largas, cuerpo cilíndrico que se va estrecha...
How do you pronounce "lepisma del azúcar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lepisma del azúcar" is [leˈpisma ð̞el aˈsukaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “lepisma del azúcar”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is L-E-P-I-S-M-A- -D-E-L- -A-Z-Ú-C-A-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [leˈpisma ð̞el aˈsukaɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.