martineta
[maɾt̪iˈnet̪a]
The verdict
“martineta” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Eudromia elegans). Hermosa perdiz que vive entre las altas yerbas. Son aves terrícolas caminadoras, que difícilmente vuelan, ya que tienen alas cortas y redondeadas. Solo en persecución alza un tr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martineta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maɾt̪iˈnet̪a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “martineta” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for martineta is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maɾt̪iˈnet̪a]. 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: "(Eudromia elegans). Hermosa perdiz que vive entre las altas yerbas. Son aves terrícolas caminadoras, que difícilmente vuelan, ya que tienen alas cortas y redondeadas. Solo en persecución alza un tr...".
No misspelling variants are generated for martineta 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 martineta, spelled M-A-R-T-I-N-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Eudromia elegans). Hermosa perdiz que vive entre las altas yerbas. Son aves terrícolas caminadoras, que difícilmente vuelan, ya que tienen alas cortas y redondeadas. Solo en persecución alza un trecho corto de vuelo. El plumaje es de color grisáseo, rojizo o pardo, y se mimetizan con la vegetación del lugar.Las plumas de la cola son cortas, el pico y el cuello largos y poseen un copete sobre la cabeza. Ambos sexos son semejantes, aunque el macho es más pequeño, viven en grupos. Los machos construyen los nidos consistiendo en hoyos no muy profundos, instalados en alguna depresión del terreno y al reparo de algún arbusto. Los huevos que pone son brillantes y coloreados. Los pichones abandonan el nido al poco tiempo de nacery tienen gran capacidad para esconderse y permanecer inmóviles. La martineta se alimenta de frutos, flores, semillas, tallos, raíces y ramas. Entre los predadores más comunes se encuentran el zorro gris, zorrinos, hurones, peludos, gavilán de campo, águila mora, aguilucho común, entre otros. Su hábitat se encuentra en la meseta patagónica y también en la zona cordillerana.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-R-T-I-N-E-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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