martín pescador
The verdict
“martín pescador” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Alcedo atthis) Especie de ave coraciiforme de la familia Alcedinidae, que habita en patas y ríos de Europa, África y Asia. El dorso del cuerpo, cabeza y alas es azul-turquesa con destellos verdoso...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martín pescador |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [maɾˈt̪ĩm peskaˈð̞oɾ] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “martín pescador” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for martín pescador is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maɾˈt̪ĩm peskaˈð̞oɾ]. 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: "(Alcedo atthis) Especie de ave coraciiforme de la familia Alcedinidae, que habita en patas y ríos de Europa, África y Asia. El dorso del cuerpo, cabeza y alas es azul-turquesa con destellos verdoso...".
No misspelling variants are generated for martín pescador 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 martín pescador, spelled M-A-R-T-Í-N- -P-E-S-C-A-D-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Alcedo atthis) Especie de ave coraciiforme de la familia Alcedinidae, que habita en patas y ríos de Europa, África y Asia. El dorso del cuerpo, cabeza y alas es azul-turquesa con destellos verdoso-metálicos. El vientre y un par de zonas bajo los ojos son de color naranja, mientras que las zonas de la garganta, orejas y orificios nasales son blancos. A pesar de estas generalidades, es complicado dar un patrón exacto del color de su plumaje, ya que este varía según la incidencia de la luz.
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Using “martín pescador”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-R-T-Í-N- -P-E-S-C-A-D-O-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [maɾˈt̪ĩm peskaˈð̞oɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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