aligote

/[aliˈɣ̞ot̪e]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

aligote is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Pagellus acarne) Pez marino de coloración rosada, con una pequeña mancha negra distintiva en la inserción de las aletas pectorales. El hocico es achatado y el interior de la cavidad bucal anaranja... Pronounced [aliˈɣ̞ot̪e].

Key facts for aligote
PropertyValue
Headwordaligote
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aliˈɣ̞ot̪e]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

aligote is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for aligote is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aliˈɣ̞ot̪e]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Pagellus acarne) Pez marino de coloración rosada, con una pequeña mancha negra distintiva en la inserción de las aletas pectorales. El hocico es achatado y el interior de la cavidad bucal anaranja...".

No misspelling variants are generated for aligote 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 aligote, spelled A-L-I-G-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Pagellus acarne) Pez marino de coloración rosada, con una pequeña mancha negra distintiva en la inserción de las aletas pectorales. El hocico es achatado y el interior de la cavidad bucal anaranjado o dorado. Llega a medir hasta los 35 cm de longitud.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aligote"?
"aligote" is spelled A-L-I-G-O-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [aliˈɣ̞ot̪e].
What does "aligote" mean?
As a noun, "aligote" means: (Pagellus acarne) Pez marino de coloración rosada, con una pequeña mancha negra distintiva en la inserción de las aletas pectorales. El hocico es achatado y el interior de la cavidad bucal anaranja...
How do you pronounce "aligote"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aligote" is [aliˈɣ̞ot̪e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aligote" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.