mandrágora

/[mãn̪ˈd̪ɾaɣ̞oɾa]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#80,263

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mandrágora is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Mandragora spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de planta herbácea solanácea sin tallo, abundantes hojas pecioladas y flores y frutos de olor fétido. Tiene propiedades narcóticas y es notoria su ra... Pronounced [mãn̪ˈd̪ɾaɣ̞oɾa].

Key facts for mandrágora
PropertyValue
Headwordmandrágora
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[mãn̪ˈd̪ɾaɣ̞oɾa]
Letters10
Frequency rank#80,263
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mandrágora is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mãn̪ˈd̪ɾaɣ̞oɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #80,263 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Mandragora spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de planta herbácea solanácea sin tallo, abundantes hojas pecioladas y flores y frutos de olor fétido. Tiene propiedades narcóticas y es notoria su ra...".

No misspelling variants are generated for mandrágora 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 mandrágora, spelled M-A-N-D-R-Á-G-O-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Mandragora spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de planta herbácea solanácea sin tallo, abundantes hojas pecioladas y flores y frutos de olor fétido. Tiene propiedades narcóticas y es notoria su raíz de forma semejante a la de una persona, lo que le confiere características míticas y legendarias como planta de relevancia pagana.

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Frequency rank: #80,263 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mandrágora"?
"mandrágora" is spelled M-A-N-D-R-Á-G-O-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [mãn̪ˈd̪ɾaɣ̞oɾa].
What does "mandrágora" mean?
As a noun, "mandrágora" means: (Mandragora spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de planta herbácea solanácea sin tallo, abundantes hojas pecioladas y flores y frutos de olor fétido. Tiene propiedades narcóticas y es notoria su ra...
How do you pronounce "mandrágora"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mandrágora" is [mãn̪ˈd̪ɾaɣ̞oɾa]. 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.