lluvia negra
[ˈʝuβ̞ja ˈneɣ̞ɾa]
The verdict
“lluvia 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Lluvia cuya agua arrastra suciedades tales como cenizas, polvo o residuos de petróleo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lluvia negra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʝuβ̞ja ˈneɣ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lluvia negra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lluvia negra is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʝuβ̞ja 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 lluvia 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 lluvia negra, spelled L-L-U-V-I-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
- 1Lluvia cuya agua arrastra suciedades tales como cenizas, polvo o residuos de petróleo.
- 2Lluvia de cenizas, petróleo u otras suciedades.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is L-L-U-V-I-A- -N-E-G-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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