neandertal

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for neandertal is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [neãn̪d̪eɾˈt̪al]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,263 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Homo neanderthalensis) es una especie extinta perteneciente a la Familia Hominidae del Orden Primates. Habitó en el Centro y Sur de Europa, Próximo y Medio Oriente y en Asia occidental desde hace ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for neandertal 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 neandertal, spelled N-E-A-N-D-E-R-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.