oso hormiguero
The verdict
“oso hormiguero” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (suborden Vermilingua) Cualquiera de cuatro especies de mamíferos xenartros nativos del Nuevo Mundo; son animales de cuerpo robusto, denso pelaje protector y hocico extremadamente elongado, dotado ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oso hormiguero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈoso oɾmiˈɣ̞eɾo] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oso hormiguero” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oso hormiguero is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoso oɾmiˈɣ̞eɾo]. 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: "(suborden Vermilingua) Cualquiera de cuatro especies de mamíferos xenartros nativos del Nuevo Mundo; son animales de cuerpo robusto, denso pelaje protector y hocico extremadamente elongado, dotado ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for oso hormiguero 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 oso hormiguero, spelled O-S-O- -H-O-R-M-I-G-U-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(suborden Vermilingua) Cualquiera de cuatro especies de mamíferos xenartros nativos del Nuevo Mundo; son animales de cuerpo robusto, denso pelaje protector y hocico extremadamente elongado, dotado de una lengua viscosa más larga que la propia cabeza, que emplean para capturar los insectos que conforman su dieta. Carecen de dientes, estando dotados en su lugar de mollejas similares a las de las aves. Poseen fuertes garras, que emplean las especies terrestres para abrir hormigueros y termiteros para alimentarse, y los tamanduás arborícolas para trepar.
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Using “oso hormiguero”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-S-O- -H-O-R-M-I-G-U-E-R-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈoso oɾmiˈɣ̞eɾo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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