cabrestante
Letters
11 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cabrestante is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rodillo con un cable o una cuerda que sirve para arrastrar o desplazar objetos. Pronounced [kaβ̞ɾesˈt̪ãn̪t̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabrestante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaβ̞ɾesˈt̪ãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for cabrestante is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaβ̞ɾesˈt̪ãn̪t̪e]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cabrestante 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 cabrestante, spelled C-A-B-R-E-S-T-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rodillo con un cable o una cuerda que sirve para arrastrar o desplazar objetos.
- 2Máquina compuesta de una armazón fuerte y sólida de madera, en parte cilíndrica y en parte cónica, que gira sobre un eje vertical por medio de las barras o palancas aplicadas a su circunferencia en uno o más planos horizontales, y sirve para hacer grandes esfuerzos, envolviendo en el cuerpo de ella y con su giro el calabrote que actúa en aquellos.
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