selección natural

/[selekˈsjõn nat̪uˈɾal]/ phrase

Letters

17 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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selección natural is aSpanishphrase. It means: Sistema establecido por el naturalista inglés Charles Darwin que explica, por la acción continuada del tiempo y del medio, la desaparición más o menos completa de determinadas especies y su sustitu... Pronounced [selekˈsjõn nat̪uˈɾal].

Key facts for selección natural
PropertyValue
Headwordselección natural
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[selekˈsjõn nat̪uˈɾal]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

selección natural 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 selección natural is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [selekˈsjõn nat̪uˈɾal]. 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: "Sistema establecido por el naturalista inglés Charles Darwin que explica, por la acción continuada del tiempo y del medio, la desaparición más o menos completa de determinadas especies y su sustitu...".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Sistema establecido por el naturalista inglés Charles Darwin que explica, por la acción continuada del tiempo y del medio, la desaparición más o menos completa de determinadas especies y su sustitución por otras de condiciones mejores.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "selección natural"?
"selección natural" is spelled S-E-L-E-C-C-I-Ó-N- -N-A-T-U-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [selekˈsjõn nat̪uˈɾal].
What does "selección natural" mean?
As a phrase, "selección natural" means: Sistema establecido por el naturalista inglés Charles Darwin que explica, por la acción continuada del tiempo y del medio, la desaparición más o menos completa de determinadas especies y su sustitu...
How do you pronounce "selección natural"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "selección natural" is [selekˈsjõn nat̪uˈɾal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "selección natural" 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.