quermes
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
quermes is aSpanishnoun. It means: Insecto hemíptero parecido a la cochinilla, que vive en la coscoja y cuya hembra forma las agallitas que dan el color de grana. Pronounced [ˈkeɾmes].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quermes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkeɾmes] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quermes is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkeɾmes]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quermes in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 quermes, spelled Q-U-E-R-M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Insecto hemíptero parecido a la cochinilla, que vive en la coscoja y cuya hembra forma las agallitas que dan el color de grana.
- 2Mezcla, de color rojizo, de óxido y sulfuro de antimonio, que se empleaba como medicamento en las enfermedades respiratorias.
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