alambrera
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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alambrera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Especie de red o tejido de alambre que se pone en algunas ventanas y aberturas. Se usaron mucho en la Edad Media, principalmente para resguardar del granizo las viviendas de las iglesias. Pronounced [alãmˈbɾeɾa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alambrera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alãmˈbɾeɾa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for alambrera is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alãmˈbɾeɾa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for alambrera 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 alambrera, spelled A-L-A-M-B-R-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Especie de red o tejido de alambre que se pone en algunas ventanas y aberturas. Se usaron mucho en la Edad Media, principalmente para resguardar del granizo las viviendas de las iglesias.
- 2Cobertera de red de alambre, comúnmente de figura acampanada, que acostumbra a ponerse sobre los braseros encendidos.
- 3Cobertera de red de alambre muy espesa, utilizada para cubrir y preservar los manjares de las moscas y otros insectos.
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