oreja de oso
The verdict
“oreja de oso” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Aristolochia chilensis) hierba rastrera, de tallos estriados amarillos o rojizos de 40-100 cm de largos. Es una planta endémica de Chile, en ella se desarrolla el estado larval de la mariposa mari...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oreja de oso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [oˈɾexa ð̞e ˈoso] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oreja de oso” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oreja de oso is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈɾexa ð̞e ˈoso]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Aristolochia chilensis) hierba rastrera, de tallos estriados amarillos o rojizos de 40-100 cm de largos. Es una planta endémica de Chile, en ella se desarrolla el estado larval de la mariposa mari...".
No misspelling variants are generated for oreja de oso 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 oso, spelled O-R-E-J-A- -D-E- -O-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Aristolochia chilensis) hierba rastrera, de tallos estriados amarillos o rojizos de 40-100 cm de largos. Es una planta endémica de Chile, en ella se desarrolla el estado larval de la mariposa mariposa negra (Battus polydamas archidamas) (Boisduval,1836) habita desde Copiapó a Santiago hasta los 1.500 msnm.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-R-E-J-A- -D-E- -O-S-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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