palma negra
The verdict
“palma negra” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Copernicia prunifera) Palmera sudamericana, que alcanza los 14 m de altura; las bases de las hojas muertas se adhieren firmemente al tronco, dándole una apariencia reticulada. Las hojas son amplia...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palma negra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpalma ˈneɣ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “palma negra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for palma negra is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpalma ˈneɣ̞ɾa]. 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: "(Copernicia prunifera) Palmera sudamericana, que alcanza los 14 m de altura; las bases de las hojas muertas se adhieren firmemente al tronco, dándole una apariencia reticulada. Las hojas son amplia...".
No misspelling variants are generated for palma negra 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 palma negra, spelled P-A-L-M-A- -N-E-G-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Copernicia prunifera) Palmera sudamericana, que alcanza los 14 m de altura; las bases de las hojas muertas se adhieren firmemente al tronco, dándole una apariencia reticulada. Las hojas son amplias, palmatisectas, con hasta 60 folíolos protegidos por una gruesa capa de cera, la más dura entre todas las ceras naturales. Su madera se usa en la construcción de viviendas, sus hojas para hacer sombreros y pantallas, y la cera se emplea en lustres y pinturas. Era el material sobre el cual se realizaron las primeras grabaciones musicales.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-L-M-A- -N-E-G-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpalma ˈneɣ̞ɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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