madreselva

/[mað̞ɾeˈselβ̞a]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#82,169

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

madreselva is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mata fruticosa de la familia de las caprifoliáceas, con tallos largos, sarmentosos, trepadores y vellosos en las partes más tiernas; hojas opuestas de color verde obscuro por la haz, glaucas por el... Pronounced [mað̞ɾeˈselβ̞a].

Key facts for madreselva
PropertyValue
Headwordmadreselva
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[mað̞ɾeˈselβ̞a]
Letters10
Frequency rank#82,169
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of madreselva in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for madreselva is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mað̞ɾeˈselβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,169 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 misspelling variants are generated for madreselva 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 madreselva, spelled M-A-D-R-E-S-E-L-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mata fruticosa de la familia de las caprifoliáceas, con tallos largos, sarmentosos, trepadores y vellosos en las partes más tiernas; hojas opuestas de color verde obscuro por la haz, glaucas por el envés, elípticas y enteras; flores olorosas en cabezuelas terminales con largo pedúnculo y de corola amarillenta, tubular y partida por el borde en cinco lóbulos desiguales, y fruto en baya pequeña y carnosa con varias semillas ovoides.
  2. 2
    Flor de esta planta.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #82,169 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "madreselva"?
"madreselva" is spelled M-A-D-R-E-S-E-L-V-A. The IPA pronunciation is [mað̞ɾeˈselβ̞a].
What does "madreselva" mean?
As a noun, "madreselva" means: Mata fruticosa de la familia de las caprifoliáceas, con tallos largos, sarmentosos, trepadores y vellosos en las partes más tiernas; hojas opuestas de color verde obscuro por la haz, glaucas por el...
How do you pronounce "madreselva"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "madreselva" is [mað̞ɾeˈselβ̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.