carda
Letters
5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
carda is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción y efecto de cardar. Pronounced [ˈkaɾð̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaɾð̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carda is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaɾð̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for carda 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 carda, spelled C-A-R-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de cardar.
- 2Utensilio en forma de cepillo o rodillo con púas metálicas usado para cardar.
- 3(Dipsacus fullonum) Hierba bianual espinosa de la familia de las dipsacáceas, originaria del hemisferio norte. Las hojas basales crecen en roseta y están fusionadas, de modo que forman un recipiente que recoge agua de lluvia. Produce flores rosadas, agrupadas en un capítulo en el ápice del tallo. Esta inflorescencia tiene el aspecto de un cepillo lleno de púas y cuando está seca se usa para cardar. A su raíz se le da uso medicinal.
- 4Instrumento que consiste en una tabla sobre la cual se sienta y asegura un pedazo de becerrillo cuajado de puntas de alambre de hierro, para preparar el hilado de la lana lavada, a fin de poderla hilar con facilidad y perfección.
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