moscarda
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8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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moscarda is aSpanishnoun. It means: Especie de mosca de unos ocho milímetros de largo, de color ceniciento, con una mancha dorada en la parte anterior de la cabeza, ojos encarnados, rayas negras en el tórax, y cuadros parduscos en el... Pronounced [mosˈkaɾð̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moscarda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mosˈkaɾð̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for moscarda is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mosˈkaɾð̞a]. 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 moscarda 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 moscarda, spelled M-O-S-C-A-R-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Especie de mosca de unos ocho milímetros de largo, de color ceniciento, con una mancha dorada en la parte anterior de la cabeza, ojos encarnados, rayas negras en el tórax, y cuadros parduscos en el abdomen. Se alimenta de carne muerta, sobre la cual deposita la hembra las larvas ya nacidas.
- 2En algunas partes, cresa o huevecillos que pone la reina de las abejas.
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