ñirre
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Language
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ñirre is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Nothofagus antarctica) Árbol caducifolio, nativo de la Patagonia, especialmente en áreas de los Andes y en la Isla de Tierra del Fuego. Alcanzan 10 a 25 m de altura, con troncos delgado, hojas sim... Pronounced [ˈɲire].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ñirre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɲire] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for ñirre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɲire]. 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 ñirre 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 ñirre, spelled Ñ-I-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Nothofagus antarctica) Árbol caducifolio, nativo de la Patagonia, especialmente en áreas de los Andes y en la Isla de Tierra del Fuego. Alcanzan 10 a 25 m de altura, con troncos delgado, hojas simples y alternas, con el borde dentado y ondulado. La flor es poco llamativa. El fruto mide 6 mm, es muy fragante y está compuesto de 4 valvas que contienen tres nueces o hayucos.
- 2(Eucryphia glutinosa) Árbol caducifolio de la familia de las eucrifiáceas, endémico de Chile y amenazado de extinción. Sus flores son ricas en néctar.
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