turón
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5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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turón is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Mustela putorius) Mamífero carnívoro de unos 35 cm de largo, con patas cortas y cola larga, una mancha oscura alrededor de los ojos que asemeja a un antifaz y pelaje marrón oscuro en el cuerpo, ne... Pronounced [t̪uˈɾõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | turón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪uˈɾõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for turón is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪uˈɾõn]. 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: "(Mustela putorius) Mamífero carnívoro de unos 35 cm de largo, con patas cortas y cola larga, una mancha oscura alrededor de los ojos que asemeja a un antifaz y pelaje marrón oscuro en el cuerpo, ne...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for turón 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 turón, spelled T-U-R-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Mustela putorius) Mamífero carnívoro de unos 35 cm de largo, con patas cortas y cola larga, una mancha oscura alrededor de los ojos que asemeja a un antifaz y pelaje marrón oscuro en el cuerpo, negro en las patas y en la cola, y blanco alrededor de la boca y las orejas. Sus glándulas anales despiden un olor fétido.
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