nardo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#71,262
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
nardo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Nardostachys grandiflora) syn. (Nardostachys jatamansi) Planta de la familia de las valerianáceas, nativa del Himalaya y extendida a lo largo del Viejo Mundo ya en la Antigüedad. Alcanza 1 m de al... Pronounced [ˈnaɾð̞o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nardo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaɾð̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nardo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnaɾð̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #71,262 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nardo 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 nardo, spelled N-A-R-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Nardostachys grandiflora) syn. (Nardostachys jatamansi) Planta de la familia de las valerianáceas, nativa del Himalaya y extendida a lo largo del Viejo Mundo ya en la Antigüedad. Alcanza 1 m de altura, con el tallo erecto recubierto de fibras rojizas, resto de las hojas basales, hojas oblongas a subovadas, glabras, e inflorescencias cimosas de 1 a 5 flores de color blanco, azul pálido o rosa. Forma rizomas subterráneos de los que se destila un aceite esencial muy aromático y medicinal.
- 2(Polyanthus tuberosa) Planta de la familia de las agaváceas, nativa de México, que crece a aprtir de densas rosetas basales formando espigas alargadas de hasta 45 cm de largo, de las que brotan racimos de flores blancas, cerúleas, muy fragantes. Su raíz se emplea para destilar un aceite aromático.
- 3Flor de cualquiera de estas plantas.
- 4Aceite esencial preparado con el extracto de la raíz o rizoma del nardo, de suavísimo olor. Se usa en rituales.
- 5Pene.
Frequency rank: #71,262 in Spanish
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