vaca marina
Letters
11 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
vaca marina is aSpanishphrase. It means: Mamíferos acuáticos herbívoros del orden de los sirenios, que según algunos, dieron origen al mito de las sirenas. Pronounced [ˈbaka maˈɾina].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaca marina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbaka maˈɾina] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for vaca marina is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaka maˈɾina]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vaca marina 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 vaca marina, spelled V-A-C-A- -M-A-R-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mamíferos acuáticos herbívoros del orden de los sirenios, que según algunos, dieron origen al mito de las sirenas.
- 2Un animal mitológico de Chiloé con aspecto de vaca, que sale del agua para aparearse con toros y enfermarlos.
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