zurdal

/[suɾˈð̞al]/ noun

The verdict

“zurdal” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
6
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Accipiter gentilis), ave accipitriforme de la familia Accipitridae. En España, su estado de conservación lo define como una especie de preocupación menor. El zurdal común es de tamaño mediano (mid...

Key facts for zurdal
PropertyValue
Headwordzurdal
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[suɾˈð̞al]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “zurdal” sits in Spanish frequency

zurdal falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for zurdal is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [suɾˈð̞al]. 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: "(Accipiter gentilis), ave accipitriforme de la familia Accipitridae. En España, su estado de conservación lo define como una especie de preocupación menor. El zurdal común es de tamaño mediano (mid...".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    (Accipiter gentilis), ave accipitriforme de la familia Accipitridae. En España, su estado de conservación lo define como una especie de preocupación menor. El zurdal común es de tamaño mediano (mide entre 48 y 58 cm; bastante similar a un ratonero) y su patrón de colores le asemejan a un halcón, aunque la especie se encuentra realmente emparentada con las águilas y muy especialmente con el gavilán.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zurdal"?
"zurdal" is spelled Z-U-R-D-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [suɾˈð̞al].
What does "zurdal" mean?
As a noun, "zurdal" means: (Accipiter gentilis), ave accipitriforme de la familia Accipitridae. En España, su estado de conservación lo define como una especie de preocupación menor. El zurdal común es de tamaño mediano (mid...
How do you pronounce "zurdal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "zurdal" is [suɾˈð̞al]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "zurdal" come from?
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Using “zurdal”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is Z-U-R-D-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [suɾˈð̞al] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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