callejón sin salida
Letters
19 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
callejón sin salida is aSpanishphrase. It means: Calle o callejuela cortada, con la misma entrada que salida. Pronounced [kaʝeˈxõn sĩn saˈlið̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | callejón sin salida |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kaʝeˈxõn sĩn saˈlið̞a] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for callejón sin salida is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaʝeˈxõn sĩn saˈlið̞a]. 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 callejón sin salida 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 callejón sin salida, spelled C-A-L-L-E-J-Ó-N- -S-I-N- -S-A-L-I-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Calle o callejuela cortada, con la misma entrada que salida.
- 2En sentido figurado, situación sin solución o salida.
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