parina chica
[paˈɾina ˈt͡ʃika]
The verdict
“parina chica” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Phoenicoparrus jamesi (Sclater) Mide unos 90 cm de largo y se asemeja a las crías de las otras dos parinas chilenas (la parina grande y el flamenco chileno). Su pico es muy amarillo con la punta ne...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parina chica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [paˈɾina ˈt͡ʃika] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “parina chica” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for parina chica is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈɾina ˈt͡ʃika]. 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: "Phoenicoparrus jamesi (Sclater) Mide unos 90 cm de largo y se asemeja a las crías de las otras dos parinas chilenas (la parina grande y el flamenco chileno). Su pico es muy amarillo con la punta ne...".
No misspelling variants are generated for parina chica 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 parina chica, spelled P-A-R-I-N-A- -C-H-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Phoenicoparrus jamesi (Sclater) Mide unos 90 cm de largo y se asemeja a las crías de las otras dos parinas chilenas (la parina grande y el flamenco chileno). Su pico es muy amarillo con la punta negra y las patas son de un rojo ladrillo. Habita en lagos y lagunas de la cordillera en el norte de Chile y regiones adyacentes de Perú, Bolivia y Argentina
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 P-A-R-I-N-A- -C-H-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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