alacalufe
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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alacalufe is anSpanishadj. It means: Que pertenece o concierne a un pueblo amerindio que habitaba las islas y canales del extremo sur de Chile. Sobreviven unos 20 individuos en Puerto Edén. Su disminución a partir de la primera mitad ... Pronounced [alakaˈlufe].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alacalufe |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [alakaˈlufe] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for alacalufe is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alakaˈlufe]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for alacalufe 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 alacalufe, spelled A-L-A-C-A-L-U-F-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne a un pueblo amerindio que habitaba las islas y canales del extremo sur de Chile. Sobreviven unos 20 individuos en Puerto Edén. Su disminución a partir de la primera mitad del siglo XX fue causada por las enfermedades, los asesinatos y los raptos perpetrados por loberos y colonos.
- 2Se dice de algo que proviene o tiene relación con los alacalufes o su cultura.
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