paloma de alas blancas

/[paˈloma ð̞e ˈalas ˈβ̞lãŋkas]/ phrase

The verdict

“paloma de alas blancas” 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
22
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Zenaida meloda (Tschudi) Esta paloma silvestre es de color gris, pero con una llamativa franja blanca en las alas, y un color azul en la zona desnuda alrededor de los ojos. Vive en terrenos arbolad...

Key facts for paloma de alas blancas
PropertyValue
Headwordpaloma de alas blancas
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[paˈloma ð̞e ˈalas ˈβ̞lãŋkas]
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “paloma de alas blancas” sits in Spanish frequency

paloma de alas blancas falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for paloma de alas blancas is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈloma ð̞e ˈalas ˈβ̞lãŋkas]. 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: "Zenaida meloda (Tschudi) Esta paloma silvestre es de color gris, pero con una llamativa franja blanca en las alas, y un color azul en la zona desnuda alrededor de los ojos. Vive en terrenos arbolad...".

No misspelling variants are generated for paloma de alas blancas 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 paloma de alas blancas, spelled P-A-L-O-M-A- -D-E- -A-L-A-S- -B-L-A-N-C-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Zenaida meloda (Tschudi) Esta paloma silvestre es de color gris, pero con una llamativa franja blanca en las alas, y un color azul en la zona desnuda alrededor de los ojos. Vive en terrenos arbolados y plantaciones del Perú; en la costa del Ecuador; en valles y oasis del Norte Grande chileno, así como en los tamarugales.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paloma de alas blancas"?
"paloma de alas blancas" is spelled P-A-L-O-M-A- -D-E- -A-L-A-S- -B-L-A-N-C-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [paˈloma ð̞e ˈalas ˈβ̞lãŋkas].
What does "paloma de alas blancas" mean?
As a phrase, "paloma de alas blancas" means: Zenaida meloda (Tschudi) Esta paloma silvestre es de color gris, pero con una llamativa franja blanca en las alas, y un color azul en la zona desnuda alrededor de los ojos. Vive en terrenos arbolad...
How do you pronounce "paloma de alas blancas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paloma de alas blancas" is [paˈloma ð̞e ˈalas ˈβ̞lãŋkas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “paloma de alas blancas”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-L-O-M-A- -D-E- -A-L-A-S- -B-L-A-N-C-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [paˈloma ð̞e ˈalas ˈβ̞lãŋkas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.