torcaza
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Language
Spanish
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torcaza is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Patagioenas fasciata), sin. (Columba fasciata). Ave columbiforme nativa de América, de plumaje grisáceo y pico amarillo; es una paloma de buen tamaño, con la cola de largo mediano, frugívora, de h... Pronounced [t̪oɾˈkasa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torcaza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪oɾˈkasa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for torcaza is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oɾˈkasa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for torcaza 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 torcaza, spelled T-O-R-C-A-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Patagioenas fasciata), sin. (Columba fasciata). Ave columbiforme nativa de América, de plumaje grisáceo y pico amarillo; es una paloma de buen tamaño, con la cola de largo mediano, frugívora, de hábitat urbano o forestal.
- 2(Zenaida auriculata) Ave columbiforme nativa de América, de plumaje grisáceo con el vientre rosado y manchas negras en las alas y tras los ojos. Es menor que una paloma común, alcanzando los 23 cm de largo. Se adapata bien al entorno urbano pero vive preferentemente en praderas y montes abiertos. Tiene un vuelo veloz y preciso.
- 3(Patagioenas araucana) Ave columbiforme nativa de América del Sur, donde cría al sur de Argentina; y en Chile desde el Norte Chico (Vallenar), hasta la Patagonia (península de Taitao). Tiene el plumaje castaño, las patas rojas, el pico negro y una distintiva banda blanca en la frente. Alcanza los 37 cm de longitud.
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