modorra
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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modorra is aSpanishnoun. It means: Enfermedad infecciosa que deja aturdidas a las ovejas y las hace andar como cayéndose, la cual es causada por larvas de algunos platelmintos que forman quistes en el cerebro, provocando pérdida de ... Pronounced [moˈð̞ora].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modorra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [moˈð̞ora] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for modorra is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [moˈð̞ora]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for modorra 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 modorra, spelled M-O-D-O-R-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad infecciosa que deja aturdidas a las ovejas y las hace andar como cayéndose, la cual es causada por larvas de algunos platelmintos que forman quistes en el cerebro, provocando pérdida de coordinación y brío. Históricamente fue frecuente en el ser humano.
- 2Por extensión, somnolencia profunda y prolongada que es síntoma de varias enfermedades nerviosas, infecciosas o tóxicas.
- 3Por extensión, sueño profundo.
- 4Segundo de los cuatro turnos de guardia nocturna.
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