madrugada

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The Spanish entry for madrugada is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mað̞ɾuˈɣ̞að̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,721 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Período nocturno comprendido entre la medianoche y el alba. Corresponde a las primeras horas del día calendario.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for madrugada, with forms such as "amdrugada", "maddrugada", and "madrguada". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "madrugar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 madrugada, spelled M-A-D-R-U-G-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.