mofeta
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
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mofeta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mamífero carnívoro de unos 50 cm de largo y pelaje bicolor (negro con rayas blancas) cuyo rasgo característico es el fuerte y fétido olor que segregan sus glándulas anales. Pronounced [moˈfet̪a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mofeta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [moˈfet̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for mofeta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [moˈfet̪a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mofeta 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 mofeta, spelled M-O-F-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mamífero carnívoro de unos 50 cm de largo y pelaje bicolor (negro con rayas blancas) cuyo rasgo característico es el fuerte y fétido olor que segregan sus glándulas anales.
- 2Cierta brocha de maquillaje que imita el pelaje del animal debido al color blanco de las puntas de las cerdas.
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