yaguar

/[ʝaˈɣ̞waɾ]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

yaguar is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Panthera onca) Felino sudamericano de gran tamaño, el mayor del mundo tras el león y el tigre y una de las cuatro especies capaces de rugir gracias a la peculiar conformación de su hioides. Es dis... Pronounced [ʝaˈɣ̞waɾ].

Key facts for yaguar
PropertyValue
Headwordyaguar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʝaˈɣ̞waɾ]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for yaguar is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʝaˈɣ̞waɾ]. 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: "(Panthera onca) Felino sudamericano de gran tamaño, el mayor del mundo tras el león y el tigre y una de las cuatro especies capaces de rugir gracias a la peculiar conformación de su hioides. Es dis...".

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

Definition

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    (Panthera onca) Felino sudamericano de gran tamaño, el mayor del mundo tras el león y el tigre y una de las cuatro especies capaces de rugir gracias a la peculiar conformación de su hioides. Es distintiva su piel moteada con rosetas de color negro sobre fondo dorado, aunque existen ejemplares con melanismo, completamente negros. Son predadores solitarios, que cazan en la selva y junto a los ríos, sin tener competencia de ninguna otra especie en su ecosistema. Su mordida es especialmente poderosa, adaptada para partir el cráneo o el cuello de sus presas, incluso bestias de gran tamaño como la anaconda.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "yaguar"?
"yaguar" is spelled Y-A-G-U-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ʝaˈɣ̞waɾ].
What does "yaguar" mean?
As a noun, "yaguar" means: (Panthera onca) Felino sudamericano de gran tamaño, el mayor del mundo tras el león y el tigre y una de las cuatro especies capaces de rugir gracias a la peculiar conformación de su hioides. Es dis...
How do you pronounce "yaguar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "yaguar" is [ʝaˈɣ̞waɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "yaguar" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.