típula
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
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típula is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Familia Tipulidae) Cualquiera de unas 14.000 especies de insectos dípteros, similares a mosquitos de gran tamaño y caracterizados por la extrema longitud de sus patas. Son inofensivas para el ser ... Pronounced [ˈt̪ipula].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | típula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ipula] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for típula is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ipula]. 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: "(Familia Tipulidae) Cualquiera de unas 14.000 especies de insectos dípteros, similares a mosquitos de gran tamaño y caracterizados por la extrema longitud de sus patas. Son inofensivas para el ser ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for típula 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 típula, spelled T-Í-P-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Familia Tipulidae) Cualquiera de unas 14.000 especies de insectos dípteros, similares a mosquitos de gran tamaño y caracterizados por la extrema longitud de sus patas. Son inofensivas para el ser humano. Algunas especies se alimentan de néctar floral, siendo un importante vector de polinización, mientras que la mayoría vive muy brevemente como adulto y carece en esa forma de aparato digestivo desarrollado. Sus larvas son voraces, y se consideran una plaga de poca importancia.
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