ojo de buey
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11 characters
Language
Spanish
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ojo de buey is aSpanishphrase. It means: Claraboya redonda propia de las embarcaciones, diseñada para resistir mejor los efectos de la presión del agua. Pronounced [ˈoxo ð̞e ˈβ̞wej].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ojo de buey |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈoxo ð̞e ˈβ̞wej] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for ojo de buey is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoxo ð̞e ˈβ̞wej]. 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 ojo de buey 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 ojo de buey, spelled O-J-O- -D-E- -B-U-E-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Claraboya redonda propia de las embarcaciones, diseñada para resistir mejor los efectos de la presión del agua.
- 2Planta trepadora de hasta diez metros de largo, hojas compuestas, frutos agrupados y cubiertos de pelos urticantes.
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