puercoespín
The verdict
“puercoespín” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #81,364 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #81,364
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nombre común que se aplica de forma genérica a varias especies de mamíferos roedores del suborden de los histricomorfos cuya piel está característicamente cubierta de púas (espinas). Se aplica espe...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puercoespín |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pweɾkoesˈpĩn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “puercoespín” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for puercoespín is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pweɾkoesˈpĩn]. Corpus data places it at rank #81,364 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nombre común que se aplica de forma genérica a varias especies de mamíferos roedores del suborden de los histricomorfos cuya piel está característicamente cubierta de púas (espinas). Se aplica espe...".
No misspelling variants are generated for puercoespín 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 puercoespín, spelled P-U-E-R-C-O-E-S-P-Í-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre común que se aplica de forma genérica a varias especies de mamíferos roedores del suborden de los histricomorfos cuya piel está característicamente cubierta de púas (espinas). Se aplica especialmente a uno nocturno del norte de África (Hystrix cristata), de unos veinticinco centímetros de alto y sesenta de largo, de cuerpo rechoncho y hocico alargado, que gruñe como el cerdo.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #81,364 in Spanish
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Using “puercoespín”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-U-E-R-C-O-E-S-P-Í-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pweɾkoesˈpĩn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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