salicornia

/[saliˈkoɾnja]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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salicornia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Planta (Salicornia europaea L., Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods) común de las marismas y saladares de Valencia. Se usa con fines medicinales por sus propiedades diuréticas y depurativas. Pronounced [saliˈkoɾnja].

Key facts for salicornia
PropertyValue
Headwordsalicornia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[saliˈkoɾnja]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

salicornia is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for salicornia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saliˈkoɾnja]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for salicornia 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 salicornia, spelled S-A-L-I-C-O-R-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Planta (Salicornia europaea L., Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods) común de las marismas y saladares de Valencia. Se usa con fines medicinales por sus propiedades diuréticas y depurativas.
  2. 2
    Planta quenopodiácea (Salicornia marítima).
  3. 3
    Planta rastrera (Salicornia ambigua) de las marismas españolas. Empleada para mejorar suelos salinos, forraje y alimentación humana.
  4. 4
    Planta halofila (Alacranera alacranera), cultivada con fines comerciales para verdura, fabricación de papel, forraje o productos de belleza.
  5. 5
    Planta halófila (Salicornia europaea), empleada como guarnición levemente salteada acompañando el pescado y otros platos.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salicornia"?
"salicornia" is spelled S-A-L-I-C-O-R-N-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [saliˈkoɾnja].
What does "salicornia" mean?
As a noun, "salicornia" means: Planta (Salicornia europaea L., Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods) común de las marismas y saladares de Valencia. Se usa con fines medicinales por sus propiedades diuréticas y depurativas.
How do you pronounce "salicornia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salicornia" is [saliˈkoɾnja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salicornia" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.