urogallo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for urogallo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uɾoˈɣ̞aʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #96,894 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Tetrao urogallus) Ave galliforme de unos 80cm de largo, de patas emplumadas y plumaje que va del gris muy oscuro al pardo oscuro, con reflejos verdes metálicos en las plumas del pecho. Habita los ...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for urogallo 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 urogallo, spelled U-R-O-G-A-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.