rara avis
The verdict
“rara avis” 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
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Persona o cosa conceptuada como singular excepción de una regla cualquiera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rara avis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈraɾa ˈaβ̞is] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rara avis” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rara avis is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈraɾa ˈaβ̞is]. 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: "Persona o cosa conceptuada como singular excepción de una regla cualquiera.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rara avis 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 rara avis, spelled R-A-R-A- -A-V-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona o cosa conceptuada como singular excepción de una regla cualquiera.
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Using “rara avis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-A-R-A- -A-V-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈraɾa ˈaβ̞is] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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