capirote
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#97,126
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
capirote is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tipo de cubierta para la cabeza algo levantada y que terminaba en punta. Pronounced [kapiˈɾot̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capirote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kapiˈɾot̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for capirote is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kapiˈɾot̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #97,126 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for capirote 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 capirote, spelled C-A-P-I-R-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tipo de cubierta para la cabeza algo levantada y que terminaba en punta.
- 2Sombrero alto de forma cónica. Se usa como parte de los trajes de los cofrades que procesionan en la Semana Santa española.
- 3Capucho antiguo con falda que caía sobre los hombros y a veces llegaba a la cintura.
- 4Capucho, unido a veces a la loba cerrada, que se usó como traje de luto en los siglos XVI y XVII.
- 5Coroza (cono de papel que se pone en la cabeza del reo).
- 6Caperuza de cuero que se pone a las aves de cetrería, para que se estén quietas, hasta que han de volar.
- 7Muceta con capillo, del color respectivo de cada facultad, que usan los doctores en ciertos actos solemnes.
- 8Variante de capirotazo (golpe que se da haciendo resbalar la uña de un dedo sobre el dedo pulgar).
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #97,126 in Spanish
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