a quemarropa
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12 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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a quemarropa is aSpanishphrase. It means: Dicho de un disparo de arma de fuego, realizado desde tan corta distancia que la deflagración de la pólvora provoca o podría provocar quemaduras en la ropa de la víctima. Pronounced [a kemaˈropa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | a quemarropa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [a kemaˈropa] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for a quemarropa is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [a kemaˈropa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a quemarropa 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 quemarropa, spelled A- -Q-U-E-M-A-R-R-O-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de un disparo de arma de fuego, realizado desde tan corta distancia que la deflagración de la pólvora provoca o podría provocar quemaduras en la ropa de la víctima.
- 2Por extensión, de modo brusco, sopresivo y demasiado directo.
- 3Desde una distancia extraordinariamente cerca.
- 4De modo brutal, sin previo aviso ni consideraciones.
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