neguilla
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8 characters
Language
Spanish
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neguilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Agrostemma githago) Planta herbácea, anual, de la familia de las cariofiláceas, de tallo erecto, pubescente, de hasta 1 m de altura, hojas lanceoladas, y flores terminales de vivo color fucsia, pe... Pronounced [neˈɣ̞iʝa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neguilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [neˈɣ̞iʝa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for neguilla is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [neˈɣ̞iʝa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for neguilla 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 neguilla, spelled N-E-G-U-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(Agrostemma githago) Planta herbácea, anual, de la familia de las cariofiláceas, de tallo erecto, pubescente, de hasta 1 m de altura, hojas lanceoladas, y flores terminales de vivo color fucsia, pentámeras, que a finales de verano fructifican en cápsulas. Crece con frecuencia junto al trigo, y se ha distributido en todo el globo acompañando a este
- 2(Nigella damascena) Planta anual, herbácea, de la familia de las ranunculáceas, nativa de la cuenca del Mediterráneo y el sudeste asiático, de hasta 50 cm de altura, hojas alternas, flores de blanco a púrpura, con 5 a 25 sépalos coloreados, protegidas por una compleja ramificación de brácteas, y fruto en cápsula. Se emplea con frecuencia en ramos decorativos
- 3Mancha negra en la dentadura de los caballos, a partir de la cual puede estimarse su edad
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