zarzamora
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#90,499
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
zarzamora is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fruto de la zarza (Rubus spp.), formado por un racimo de pequeñas drupas de color rojo intenso o morado, que maduran a mediados del verano. Es comestible. Pronounced [saɾsaˈmoɾa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zarzamora |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [saɾsaˈmoɾa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for zarzamora is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saɾsaˈmoɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,499 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zarzamora 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 zarzamora, spelled Z-A-R-Z-A-M-O-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruto de la zarza (Rubus spp.), formado por un racimo de pequeñas drupas de color rojo intenso o morado, que maduran a mediados del verano. Es comestible.
- 2(Rubus ulmifolius) Arbusto de la familia de las rosáceas de aspecto sarmentoso, que alcanza los 3 m. Es espinoso, con hojas ovadas, dendadas, de color verde oscuro, y flores pentámeras en racimos que dan lugar a frutos llamados zarzamoras₁ o moras. Es una planta muy invasiva y de crecimiento rápido que también puede multiplicarse vegetativamente generando raíces desde sus ramas.
- 3(Rubus constrictus) Arbusto semejante al anterior, de ramas más delgadas y espinas más débiles que puede alcanzar los 4 m de altura. También es una maleza y sus frutos son comestibles.
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Frequency rank: #90,499 in Spanish
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