oso negro
[ˈoso ˈneɣ̞ɾo]
The verdict
“oso negro” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Ursus americanus) Oso de Norteamérica, vive en los bosques y es un buen trepador. Durante seis meses hiberna. Su coloración varía desde el blanco, pasando por café canela y azul hasta el negro, se...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oso negro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈoso ˈneɣ̞ɾo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oso negro” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oso negro is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoso ˈneɣ̞ɾo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for oso negro 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 negro, spelled O-S-O- -N-E-G-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Ursus americanus) Oso de Norteamérica, vive en los bosques y es un buen trepador. Durante seis meses hiberna. Su coloración varía desde el blanco, pasando por café canela y azul hasta el negro, según la ubicación geográfica de sus poblaciones.
- 2(Selenarctos thibetanus) Oso que vive en las montañas del sureste del Asia. Su pelaje es negro con una mancha blanca en el pecho con forma de V.
- 3(Tremarctos ornatus) Único representante de la familia Ursidae en América del Sur, mide entre un metro y medio y dos metros de largo, las hembras son más pequeñas. Su pelaje varía desde el castaño oscuro hasta el negro y tiene unas características zonas más claras en la frente y hocico, de donde toma su nombre de oso de anteojos, y sobre el pecho. Vive en las montañas andinas.
Synonyms
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-S-O- -N-E-G-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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