viuda negra
[ˈbjuð̞a ˈneɣ̞ɾa]
The verdict
“viuda negra” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — (Latrodectus mactans) Araña venenosa que se encuentra en todos los países de América. Su peligrosidad se ha exagerado, normalmente una persona sana se recupera en un par de semanas sin secuelas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viuda negra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbjuð̞a ˈneɣ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “viuda negra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for viuda negra is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbjuð̞a ˈneɣ̞ɾa]. 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: "(Latrodectus mactans) Araña venenosa que se encuentra en todos los países de América. Su peligrosidad se ha exagerado, normalmente una persona sana se recupera en un par de semanas sin secuelas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for viuda negra in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 viuda negra, spelled V-I-U-D-A- -N-E-G-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Latrodectus mactans) Araña venenosa que se encuentra en todos los países de América. Su peligrosidad se ha exagerado, normalmente una persona sana se recupera en un par de semanas sin secuelas.
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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.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-I-U-D-A- -N-E-G-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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