murta

/[ˈmuɾt̪a]/ noun

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Language

Spanish

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murta is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Myrtus communis) Arbusto o pequeño árbol de la familia de las mirtáceas, nativo de Europa meridional y el norte de África. Es una planta de follaje siempreverde, de hojas brillantes y perfumadas; ... Pronounced [ˈmuɾt̪a].

Key facts for murta
PropertyValue
Headwordmurta
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈmuɾt̪a]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

murta is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for murta is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmuɾt̪a]. 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 murta 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 murta, spelled M-U-R-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Myrtus communis) Arbusto o pequeño árbol de la familia de las mirtáceas, nativo de Europa meridional y el norte de África. Es una planta de follaje siempreverde, de hojas brillantes y perfumadas; sus flores son blancas, con cinco pétalos y numerosos estambres; y su fruto es una baya de color azulado.
  2. 2
    La fruta que produce este arbusto, una baya.
  3. 3
    Por analogía, Ugni molinae, arbusto de la familia de las mirtáceas, natural de los bosques templados del sur de Chile y Argentina, que se cultiva por sus frutos para uso en gastronomía. Alcanza los 4 m de altura; es de hoja perenne, lanceolada, de color verde oscuro, con la copa densa y apretada. Florece a finales de primavera, dando flores hermafroditas de forma acampanada y color blanco, rosado o purpúreo. El fruto madura hacia mediados del verano; es una baya globosa, de color rojo intenso y entre 5 y 15 milímetros de diámetro. Se utiliza en repostería y la fabricación de mermeladas, jugos y chocolates, así como para la elaboración de licores.
  4. 4
    Fruto de este arbusto.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "murta"?
"murta" is spelled M-U-R-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmuɾt̪a].
What does "murta" mean?
As a noun, "murta" means: (Myrtus communis) Arbusto o pequeño árbol de la familia de las mirtáceas, nativo de Europa meridional y el norte de África. Es una planta de follaje siempreverde, de hojas brillantes y perfumadas; ...
How do you pronounce "murta"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "murta" is [ˈmuɾt̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "murta" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.