a pelo

/[a ˈpelo]/ phrase

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

a pelo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Dicho de la acción de montar una caballería, directamente sobre el lomo del animal, sin montura o silla. Pronounced [a ˈpelo].

Key facts for a pelo
PropertyValue
Headworda pelo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[a ˈpelo]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

a pelo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for a pelo is 6 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a ˈpelo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a pelo 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 a pelo, spelled A- -P-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dicho de la acción de montar una caballería, directamente sobre el lomo del animal, sin montura o silla.
  2. 2
    Sin sombrero u otra protección para la cabeza.
  3. 3
    Por extensión, sin ropa alguna.
  4. 4
    Por extensión, sin protección o ayuda de ninguna clase.
  5. 5
    En particular, dicho del coito, sin condón u otra barrera física contra las enfermedades de transmisión sexual.
  6. 6
    Con exactitud y precisión.
  7. 7
    En el momento u ocasión propicia.
  8. 8
    Dicho de un intercambio económico: trueque realizado sin dinero.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "a pelo"?
"a pelo" is spelled A- -P-E-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [a ˈpelo].
What does "a pelo" mean?
As a phrase, "a pelo" means: Dicho de la acción de montar una caballería, directamente sobre el lomo del animal, sin montura o silla.
How do you pronounce "a pelo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "a pelo" is [a ˈpelo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "a pelo" come from?
"a pelo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.