lúnula
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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lúnula is aSpanishnoun. It means: Semicírculo de la raíz de la uña. Pronounced [ˈlunula].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lúnula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlunula] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lúnula is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlunula]. 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 lúnula 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 lúnula, spelled L-Ú-N-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Semicírculo de la raíz de la uña.
- 2Soporte para la custodia.
- 3Figura compuesta de dos arcos de círculo que se cortan en el mismo lado.
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