muérdago

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for muérdago is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmweɾð̞aɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,201 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nombre común de varias especies botánicas, en particular del Viscum album, planta semiparásita siempre verde, de hojas carnosas, flores amarillas y frutos blancuzcos, que vive sobre los troncos y r...".

No misspelling variants are generated for muérdago 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 muérdago, spelled M-U-É-R-D-A-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.