zorro chilote
The verdict
“zorro chilote” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Pseudalopex fulvipes) Cánido sudamericano, endémico de Chile, donde sólo habita en la Isla Grande de Chiloé y la Cordillera de Nahuelbuta. Es un animal pequeño, de no más de 5 kg de peso y 25 cm d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zorro chilote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈsoro t͡ʃiˈlot̪e] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zorro chilote” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for zorro chilote is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsoro t͡ʃiˈlot̪e]. 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: "(Pseudalopex fulvipes) Cánido sudamericano, endémico de Chile, donde sólo habita en la Isla Grande de Chiloé y la Cordillera de Nahuelbuta. Es un animal pequeño, de no más de 5 kg de peso y 25 cm d...".
No misspelling variants are generated for zorro chilote 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 zorro chilote, spelled Z-O-R-R-O- -C-H-I-L-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Pseudalopex fulvipes) Cánido sudamericano, endémico de Chile, donde sólo habita en la Isla Grande de Chiloé y la Cordillera de Nahuelbuta. Es un animal pequeño, de no más de 5 kg de peso y 25 cm de altura a la cruz; su pelaje es gris oscuro con manchas blancas en el pecho y partes rojizas en las patas y las orejas. Se halla en peligro de extinción y quedan alrededor de 600 ejemplares.
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Using “zorro chilote”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is Z-O-R-R-O- -C-H-I-L-O-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈsoro t͡ʃiˈlot̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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