rorcual
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Language
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rorcual is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Balaenoptera physalus) Cetáceo de cabeza aplanada con pálidas líneas detrás de esta, pero no siempre; aleta dorsal falcada, pequeña, situada en el tercio posterior del cuerpo; color gris o marrón,... Pronounced [roɾˈkwal].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rorcual |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [roɾˈkwal] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for rorcual is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [roɾˈkwal]. 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: "(Balaenoptera physalus) Cetáceo de cabeza aplanada con pálidas líneas detrás de esta, pero no siempre; aleta dorsal falcada, pequeña, situada en el tercio posterior del cuerpo; color gris o marrón,...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rorcual 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 rorcual, spelled R-O-R-C-U-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Balaenoptera physalus) Cetáceo de cabeza aplanada con pálidas líneas detrás de esta, pero no siempre; aleta dorsal falcada, pequeña, situada en el tercio posterior del cuerpo; color gris o marrón, más oscuro en el lado izquierdo y de color claro en el vientre; mide entre 18 y 22 metros de largo; pesa entre 30 y 80 toneladas. Se lo considera una especie vulnerable.
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