upupa
[uˈpupa]
The verdict
“upupa” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Upupa epops) Ave insectívora de plumaje pardo rosado, con las alas y la cola listadas de blanco y negro. Está dotado en la cabeza de un penacho de plumas eréctiles como un abanico.
Corpus desk
Index ES-upupa · upupa · Spanish
upupa · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" 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 | upupa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uˈpupa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “upupa” en español
Rare enough to double-check
upupa is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [uˈpupa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Upupa epops) Ave insectívora de plumaje pardo rosado, con las alas y la cola listadas de blanco y negro. Está dotado en la cabeza de un penacho de plumas eréctiles como un abanico.".
No misspelling variants are generated for upupa in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is upupa, spelled U-P-U-P-A.
Definition
- 1(Upupa epops) Ave insectívora de plumaje pardo rosado, con las alas y la cola listadas de blanco y negro. Está dotado en la cabeza de un penacho de plumas eréctiles como un abanico.
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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.