regaliz
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,507
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
regaliz is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Glycyrrhiza glabra) Hierba perenne, de la familia de las fabáceas, nativa de Europa meridional y el Asia Menor, que se cultiva desde la Antigüedad por el extracto de su raíz y rizoma, sabroso y de... Pronounced [reɣ̞aˈlis].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regaliz |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reɣ̞aˈlis] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for regaliz is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reɣ̞aˈlis]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,507 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for regaliz 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 regaliz, spelled R-E-G-A-L-I-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Glycyrrhiza glabra) Hierba perenne, de la familia de las fabáceas, nativa de Europa meridional y el Asia Menor, que se cultiva desde la Antigüedad por el extracto de su raíz y rizoma, sabroso y de propiedades medicinales
- 2Raíz de esta planta, consumida como golosina o medicamento
- 3Cualquier golosina, caramelo o pastilla saborizado con el extracto de esta planta
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #52,507 in Spanish
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