whisky sour

/[ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝iski ˈsowɾ]/ phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

whisky sour is aSpanishphrase. It means: Famoso cóctel que contiene whisky de Bourbon, jugo de limón, azúcar y, opcionalmente, clara de huevo. Se agita y se sirve directamente o sobre hielo. Pronounced [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝iski ˈsowɾ].

Key facts for whisky sour
PropertyValue
Headwordwhisky sour
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝iski ˈsowɾ]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

whisky sour is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for whisky sour is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝iski ˈsowɾ]. 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: "Famoso cóctel que contiene whisky de Bourbon, jugo de limón, azúcar y, opcionalmente, clara de huevo. Se agita y se sirve directamente o sobre hielo.".

No misspelling variants are generated for whisky sour 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 whisky sour, spelled W-H-I-S-K-Y- -S-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Famoso cóctel que contiene whisky de Bourbon, jugo de limón, azúcar y, opcionalmente, clara de huevo. Se agita y se sirve directamente o sobre hielo.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "whisky sour"?
"whisky sour" is spelled W-H-I-S-K-Y- -S-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝iski ˈsowɾ].
What does "whisky sour" mean?
As a phrase, "whisky sour" means: Famoso cóctel que contiene whisky de Bourbon, jugo de limón, azúcar y, opcionalmente, clara de huevo. Se agita y se sirve directamente o sobre hielo.
How do you pronounce "whisky sour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "whisky sour" is [ˈ(ɣ̞)w̝iski ˈsowɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "whisky sour" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.