surí

/[suˈɾi]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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surí is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Pterocnemia pennata), sin. (Rhea pennata) Ave corredora sudamericana, que habita desde la Patagonia hasta el altiplano, y por lo tanto se la encuentra en Chile, Argentina, Bolivia y Perú. Es de me... Pronounced [suˈɾi].

Key facts for surí
PropertyValue
Headwordsurí
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[suˈɾi]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for surí is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [suˈɾi]. 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: "(Pterocnemia pennata), sin. (Rhea pennata) Ave corredora sudamericana, que habita desde la Patagonia hasta el altiplano, y por lo tanto se la encuentra en Chile, Argentina, Bolivia y Perú. Es de me...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for surí 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 surí, spelled S-U-R-Í, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Pterocnemia pennata), sin. (Rhea pennata) Ave corredora sudamericana, que habita desde la Patagonia hasta el altiplano, y por lo tanto se la encuentra en Chile, Argentina, Bolivia y Perú. Es de menor tamaño que el ñandú grande (Rhea americana) que se encuentra en Argentina, y por ello los argentinos lo llaman ñandú petizo; en tanto en Chile es conocido, oficial y popularmente, como ñandú, a secas.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "surí"?
"surí" is spelled S-U-R-Í. The IPA pronunciation is [suˈɾi].
What does "surí" mean?
As a noun, "surí" means: (Pterocnemia pennata), sin. (Rhea pennata) Ave corredora sudamericana, que habita desde la Patagonia hasta el altiplano, y por lo tanto se la encuentra en Chile, Argentina, Bolivia y Perú. Es de me...
How do you pronounce "surí"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "surí" is [suˈɾi]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "surí" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.