nutria
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,148
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
nutria is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Familia Lutrinae) Cualquiera de trece especies de mamíferos carnívoros mustélidos, de hábitos acuáticos y cuerpo fusiforme, de tamaño variable según la especie. Poseen un tupido pelaje impermeable... Pronounced [ˈnut̪ɾja]. Often confused with nutrir and nutrido.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nutria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnut̪ɾja] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nutria is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnut̪ɾja]. Corpus data places it at rank #43,148 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for nutria, with forms such as "nnutria", "nturia", and "nurtia". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "nutrir", "nutrido", "nutrida", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 nutria, spelled N-U-T-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Familia Lutrinae) Cualquiera de trece especies de mamíferos carnívoros mustélidos, de hábitos acuáticos y cuerpo fusiforme, de tamaño variable según la especie. Poseen un tupido pelaje impermeable y muy fino, que les permite conservar el calor del cuerpo, y una cola larga, que los ayuda en la natación. Son voraces predadores.
- 2La piel de este animal.
- 3(Myocastor coypus Molina) Por analogía, especie de roedor natural de Argentina y Chile. Es un equimíido de gran talla, hasta 10 kilos de peso, con cola larga y escamosa. El áspero pelo superior recubre un vello inferior de considerable valor comercial en peletería. Es de hábitos nocturnos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnutria,nturia,nurtia,nutira,nutrai,nutrria,nuttria,untria
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Misspelling Variants of "nutria"
Frequency rank: #43,148 in Spanish
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