mariposa negra
[maɾiˈposa ˈneɣ̞ɾa]
The verdict
“mariposa negra” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Battus polydamas archidamas). Mariposa grande, de 75 a 105 mm. Sus alas de color negro presentan una línea de manchitas amarillas a poca distancia de sus bordes. En Chile habita desde el desierto ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mariposa negra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [maɾiˈposa ˈneɣ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mariposa negra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mariposa negra is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maɾiˈposa ˈneɣ̞ɾa]. 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: "(Battus polydamas archidamas). Mariposa grande, de 75 a 105 mm. Sus alas de color negro presentan una línea de manchitas amarillas a poca distancia de sus bordes. En Chile habita desde el desierto ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for mariposa negra 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 negra, spelled M-A-R-I-P-O-S-A- -N-E-G-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Battus polydamas archidamas). Mariposa grande, de 75 a 105 mm. Sus alas de color negro presentan una línea de manchitas amarillas a poca distancia de sus bordes. En Chile habita desde el desierto de Atacama hasta Concepción. Su larva se desarrolla en una especie vegetal conocida como oreja de oso (Aristolochia chilensis).
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- -N-E-G-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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