mariposa colorada
[maɾiˈposa koloˈɾað̞a]
The verdict
“mariposa colorada” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Vanessa terpsichore) Mariposa común en campos y ciudades de Sudamérica. De color negra hacia los bordes de las alas, el resto es de color rojizo y café con líneas y puntos negros, y algunos blanco...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mariposa colorada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [maɾiˈposa koloˈɾað̞a] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mariposa colorada” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mariposa colorada is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maɾiˈposa koloˈɾað̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Vanessa terpsichore) Mariposa común en campos y ciudades de Sudamérica. De color negra hacia los bordes de las alas, el resto es de color rojizo y café con líneas y puntos negros, y algunos blanco...".
No misspelling variants are generated for mariposa colorada 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 mariposa colorada, spelled M-A-R-I-P-O-S-A- -C-O-L-O-R-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Vanessa terpsichore) Mariposa común en campos y ciudades de Sudamérica. De color negra hacia los bordes de las alas, el resto es de color rojizo y café con líneas y puntos negros, y algunos blancos. Se la ve posarse en los caminos en las tardes soleadas.
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 M-A-R-I-P-O-S-A- -C-O-L-O-R-A-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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