oreja de elefante
The verdict
“oreja de elefante” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Planta Xanthosoma sagittifolium de uso ornamental y comestible. Es una especie de la familia de las aráceas, originaria de América Central, cultivada extensamente en las regiones tropicales, que pr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oreja de elefante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [oˈɾexa ð̞e eleˈfãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oreja de elefante” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oreja de elefante is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈɾexa ð̞e eleˈfãn̪t̪e]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for oreja de elefante 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 oreja de elefante, spelled O-R-E-J-A- -D-E- -E-L-E-F-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Planta Xanthosoma sagittifolium de uso ornamental y comestible. Es una especie de la familia de las aráceas, originaria de América Central, cultivada extensamente en las regiones tropicales, que producen cormos, ricos en almidón y que contienen entre 1 y 8,8% de proteína.
- 2Filete delgado de carne de vaca empanado y horneado o frito.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-R-E-J-A- -D-E- -E-L-E-F-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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