álcali
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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álcali is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de los óxidos metálicos que, por ser muy solubles en agua, pueden actuar como bases enérgicas. Pronounced [ˈalkali].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | álcali |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈalkali] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for álcali is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈalkali]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for álcali 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 álcali, spelled Á-L-C-A-L-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de los óxidos metálicos que, por ser muy solubles en agua, pueden actuar como bases enérgicas.
- 2Nombre genérico de los óxidos, cuyos efectos son opuestos a los de los ácidos; fermentan con ellos y los neutralizan, mudan en verde los colores azules vegetales, y son de un sabor acre, urinoso y cáustico.
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