murtilla
Letters
8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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murtilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Ugni molinae) Arbusto de la familia de las mirtáceas, natural de las regiones occidentales de América del Sur, que se cultiva por sus frutos para uso en gastronomía. Alcanza los 4 m de altura; es ... Pronounced [muɾˈt̪iʝa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | murtilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [muɾˈt̪iʝa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for murtilla is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [muɾˈt̪iʝa]. 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 murtilla 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 murtilla, spelled M-U-R-T-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Ugni molinae) Arbusto de la familia de las mirtáceas, natural de las regiones occidentales de América del Sur, 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.
- 2Fruto de este arbusto
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