baqueta
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#81,723
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
baqueta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vara delgada de hierro o de madera, con un casquillo de cuerno o metal, que sirve para atacar las armas de fuego. Pronounced [baˈket̪a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baqueta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈket̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for baqueta is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈket̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #81,723 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for baqueta 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 baqueta, spelled B-A-Q-U-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vara delgada de hierro o de madera, con un casquillo de cuerno o metal, que sirve para atacar las armas de fuego.
- 2Varilla seca de membrillo o de otro árbol, que usan los picadores para el manejo de los caballos.
- 3Palillos con que se toca el tambor.
- 4Castigo que se daba en la milicia precisando al delincuente, desnudo de medio cuerpo arriba, a correr una o muchas veces por medio de la calle que formaban los soldados, los cuales, al pasar el reo, le daban en la espalda con las correas, baquetas, varas o portafusiles.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #81,723 in Spanish
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