brocal
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#88,605
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
brocal is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pared que rodea la boca de un pozo, para evitar caer en él por accidente. Pronounced [bɾoˈkal].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brocal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bɾoˈkal] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for brocal is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bɾoˈkal]. Corpus data places it at rank #88,605 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for brocal 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 brocal, spelled B-R-O-C-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pared que rodea la boca de un pozo, para evitar caer en él por accidente.
- 2Por extensión, abertura que da acceso al pozo.
- 3Pequeño embudo para llenar o beber de una bota.
- 4Refuerzo que guarece la vaina de un arma blanca.
- 5Refuerzo similar que guarece el ribete de un escudo.
- 6Refuerzo similar que guarece la boca de una pieza de artillería.
- 7Ramal secundario de una alcantarilla.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #88,605 in Spanish
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