yarará

/[ʝaɾaˈɾa]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

yarará is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Bothrops alternatus) Serpiente venenosa, de la subfamilia de los crótalos, que habita zonas tropicales húmedas de América del Sur. Alcanza el metro y medio de largo, con un patrón de escamas de co... Pronounced [ʝaɾaˈɾa].

Key facts for yarará
PropertyValue
Headwordyarará
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʝaɾaˈɾa]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

yarará 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 yarará is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʝaɾaˈɾa]. 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: "(Bothrops alternatus) Serpiente venenosa, de la subfamilia de los crótalos, que habita zonas tropicales húmedas de América del Sur. Alcanza el metro y medio de largo, con un patrón de escamas de co...".

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

Definition

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    (Bothrops alternatus) Serpiente venenosa, de la subfamilia de los crótalos, que habita zonas tropicales húmedas de América del Sur. Alcanza el metro y medio de largo, con un patrón de escamas de color pardo y gris que favorece el camuflaje. Es una de las más peligrosas que habitan el Cono Sur, de temperamento agresivo y muy territorial.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "yarará"?
"yarará" is spelled Y-A-R-A-R-Á. The IPA pronunciation is [ʝaɾaˈɾa].
What does "yarará" mean?
As a noun, "yarará" means: (Bothrops alternatus) Serpiente venenosa, de la subfamilia de los crótalos, que habita zonas tropicales húmedas de América del Sur. Alcanza el metro y medio de largo, con un patrón de escamas de co...
How do you pronounce "yarará"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "yarará" is [ʝaɾaˈɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "yarará" 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.