camalote
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Language
Spanish
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camalote is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Paspalum paniculatum) Planta forrajera perenne de tallo áspero y recto y de hojas relativamente grandes, que se usa como alimento para el ganado, nativa de México y de Centroamérica. Pronounced [kamaˈlot̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camalote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kamaˈlot̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for camalote is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kamaˈlot̪e]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for camalote 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 camalote, spelled C-A-M-A-L-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Paspalum paniculatum) Planta forrajera perenne de tallo áspero y recto y de hojas relativamente grandes, que se usa como alimento para el ganado, nativa de México y de Centroamérica.
- 2(Pontederia). Cualquiera de las plantas de la familia de las pontederiáceas que en abundancia se producen en los ríos interiores de Sudamérica y que arrancadas por la corriente flotan aguas abajo en grandes porciones que semejan islas. Sus flores son azules, moradas o blancas.
- 3Conjunto de camalotes que conforman una isla.
- 4Variante de gramalote.
- 5Planta de la cebolla que tiene seis tallos.
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