alpargata
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#89,524
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
alpargata is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tipo de calzado ligero con capellada de tela o soga y suela de esparto, cáñamo, pabilo, alguna otra fibra natural, cuero o caucho, asegurado al pie por simple ajuste o con cintas (filadiz), sin ama... Pronounced [alpaɾˈɣ̞at̪a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alpargata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alpaɾˈɣ̞at̪a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alpargata is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alpaɾˈɣ̞at̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #89,524 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for alpargata 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 alpargata, spelled A-L-P-A-R-G-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tipo de calzado ligero con capellada de tela o soga y suela de esparto, cáñamo, pabilo, alguna otra fibra natural, cuero o caucho, asegurado al pie por simple ajuste o con cintas (filadiz), sin amarrar a la pierna.
- 2Tipo de sandalia de cuña con tiras.
- 3Cosa, persona o animal de poca importancia o valor.
- 4(Doydixodon laevifrons) Pez marino con dientes acucharados y color grisáceo.
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Frequency rank: #89,524 in Spanish
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