tagua
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#92,499
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tagua is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Fulica) Cualquiera de las especies de este género de aves gruiformes nadadoras que habitan en Sudamérica, de treinta centímetros de largo; plumaje negro con reflejos grises; pico grueso, abultado ... Pronounced [ˈt̪aɣ̞wa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tagua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪aɣ̞wa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tagua is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪aɣ̞wa]. Corpus data places it at rank #92,499 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tagua 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 tagua, spelled T-A-G-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Fulica) Cualquiera de las especies de este género de aves gruiformes nadadoras que habitan en Sudamérica, de treinta centímetros de largo; plumaje negro con reflejos grises; pico grueso, abultado y extendido por la frente formando una mancha generalmente blanca; alas anchas, cola corta y redondeada, y pies de color verdoso amarillento con dedos largos y palmeados en la base.
- 2(Fulica armillata) En particular, esta especie. De aproximadamente 55 cm. de largo, cabeza y cuerpo negros, con su escudo y pico amarillos, a excepción de una mancha roja en la unión de estos.
Frequency rank: #92,499 in Spanish
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