captura al paso

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for captura al paso is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kapˈt̪uɾa al ˈpaso]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Captura que es posible realizar sobre un peón rival que sea adyacente a un peón propio que esté en la quinta fila y aquel haya sido movido dos casillas (de segunda fila a cuarta fila) en la última ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for captura al paso 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 captura al paso, spelled C-A-P-T-U-R-A- -A-L- -P-A-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.