zorro de Darwin

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for zorro de Darwin is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsoro ð̞e ˈð̞aɾwĩn]. 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 de Darwin 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 de Darwin, spelled Z-O-R-R-O- -D-E- -D-A-R-W-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.