suricata
[suɾiˈkat̪a]
The verdict
“suricata” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Suricata suricatta) Pequeño mamífero, miembro de la familia de la mangosta (Herpestidae), que habita la región del desierto de Kalahari y el Namib en África.
Corpus desk
Index ES-suricata · suricata · Spanish
suricata · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suricata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [suɾiˈkat̪a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “suricata” en español
Rare enough to double-check
suricata is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [suɾiˈkat̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Suricata suricatta) Pequeño mamífero, miembro de la familia de la mangosta (Herpestidae), que habita la región del desierto de Kalahari y el Namib en África.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for suricata in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is suricata, spelled S-U-R-I-C-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1(Suricata suricatta) Pequeño mamífero, miembro de la familia de la mangosta (Herpestidae), que habita la región del desierto de Kalahari y el Namib en África.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.