a pelo
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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | a pelo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [a ˈpelo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Dicho de la acción de montar una caballería, directamente sobre el lomo del animal, sin montura o silla.
- 2Sin sombrero u otra protección para la cabeza.
- 3Por extensión, sin ropa alguna.
- 4Por extensión, sin protección o ayuda de ninguna clase.
- 5En particular, dicho del coito, sin condón u otra barrera física contra las enfermedades de transmisión sexual.
- 6Con exactitud y precisión.
- 7En el momento u ocasión propicia.
- 8Dicho de un intercambio económico: trueque realizado sin dinero.
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