monotrema
[monoˈt̪ɾema]
The verdict
“monotrema” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as an adjective - 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) - Dicho de los mamíferos que tienen cloaca, como las aves, y, por tanto, con una única abertura en la parte posterior del cuerpo. Tienen pico y huesos coracoides; ponen huevos, y las crías beben la l...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monotrema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [monoˈt̪ɾema] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “monotrema” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for monotrema is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [monoˈt̪ɾema]. 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: "Dicho de los mamíferos que tienen cloaca, como las aves, y, por tanto, con una única abertura en la parte posterior del cuerpo. Tienen pico y huesos coracoides; ponen huevos, y las crías beben la l...".
No misspelling variants are generated for monotrema 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 monotrema, spelled M-O-N-O-T-R-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de los mamíferos que tienen cloaca, como las aves, y, por tanto, con una única abertura en la parte posterior del cuerpo. Tienen pico y huesos coracoides; ponen huevos, y las crías beben la leche que se derrama de las mamas, al no tener pezones.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-O-N-O-T-R-E-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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