mirlo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#60,174
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
mirlo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Turdus merula) Ave de la familia de los túrdidos, de tamaño medio, plumaje completamente negro, pico y anillo ocular amarillos en el macho, y plumaje marrón en la hembra. Se distribuye por toda Eu... Pronounced [ˈmiɾlo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mirlo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmiɾlo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mirlo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmiɾlo]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,174 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mirlo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 mirlo, spelled M-I-R-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Turdus merula) Ave de la familia de los túrdidos, de tamaño medio, plumaje completamente negro, pico y anillo ocular amarillos en el macho, y plumaje marrón en la hembra. Se distribuye por toda Europa.
- 2(Molothrus bonariensis) Pájaro americano de plumaje negro tornasolado en el macho y pardo en la hembra y los juveniles, que deposita sus huevos en nidos de otras especies para que estos críen los polluelos por ellos. Se distribuye por casi toda América del Sur, y parte del Caribe.
Frequency rank: #60,174 in Spanish
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