zarzaparrilla

/[saɾsapaˈriʝa]/ noun

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13 characters

Language

Spanish

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zarzaparrilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Smilax regelii, S. aspera, S. glabra, S. febrifuga) Cualquiera de varias especies de plantas perennes que crecen como lianas leñosas de hasta 50 m de largo, algunas nativas del Viejo Mundo y la ma... Pronounced [saɾsapaˈriʝa].

Key facts for zarzaparrilla
PropertyValue
Headwordzarzaparrilla
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[saɾsapaˈriʝa]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

zarzaparrilla 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 zarzaparrilla is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saɾsapaˈriʝa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for zarzaparrilla 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 zarzaparrilla, spelled Z-A-R-Z-A-P-A-R-R-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Smilax regelii, S. aspera, S. glabra, S. febrifuga) Cualquiera de varias especies de plantas perennes que crecen como lianas leñosas de hasta 50 m de largo, algunas nativas del Viejo Mundo y la mayoría de América tropical. Son plantas trepadoras, de tallo grueso y cubierto de espinas, con hojas romboidales, coriáceas, pecioladas. Produce un fruto en forma de baya de color rojo intenso. Su raíz, tuberosa y larga, se emplea para producir una bebida refrescante y con propósitos medicinales, aunque de escaso sabor.
  2. 2
    Brebaje espumoso preparado a partir de la raíz de esta planta.
  3. 3
    (Cissus striata) Planta trepadora que se encuentra en el centro-sur de Chile con una amplia distribución desde Coquimbo a la Región de Los Lagos. También se encuentra en Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay, Paraguay y Bolivia. Tiene un tallo leñoso que se ve rojizo cuando envejece. Sus hojas están compuestas por cinco foliolos en forma palmada.
  4. 4
    (Ribes magellanicum) Arbusto siempreverde del centro-sur de Chile con hojas palmadas y fruto en racimos. Con sus hojas se prepara una infusión y sus frutos son comestibles.

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How do you spell "zarzaparrilla"?
"zarzaparrilla" is spelled Z-A-R-Z-A-P-A-R-R-I-L-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [saɾsapaˈriʝa].
What does "zarzaparrilla" mean?
As a noun, "zarzaparrilla" means: (Smilax regelii, S. aspera, S. glabra, S. febrifuga) Cualquiera de varias especies de plantas perennes que crecen como lianas leñosas de hasta 50 m de largo, algunas nativas del Viejo Mundo y la ma...
How do you pronounce "zarzaparrilla"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "zarzaparrilla" is [saɾsapaˈriʝa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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