alvéolo
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
alvéolo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Espacio vacío dentro de un cuerpo o hueco en una superficie. Pronounced [alˈβ̞eolo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alvéolo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alˈβ̞eolo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alvéolo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alˈβ̞eolo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for alvéolo 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 alvéolo, spelled A-L-V-É-O-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espacio vacío dentro de un cuerpo o hueco en una superficie.
- 2Cavidad hexagonal hecha con cera, de los panales en las colmenas de las abejas. La mayoría están llenas de miel, otras se destinan a la cría de huevos y larvas de nuevas generaciones de abejas.
- 3Cavidad de las mandíbulas en donde se inserta la raíz de un diente.
- 4Pequeño saco elástico en el que terminan los bronquiolos. Su función es el intercambio de anhídrido carbónico y oxígeno entre el aire y la sangre (hematosis).
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