carretón
Letters
8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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carretón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Carro pequeño y abierto, de tracción a sangre. Pronounced [kareˈt̪õn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carretón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kareˈt̪õn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for carretón is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kareˈt̪õn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for carretón 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 carretón, spelled C-A-R-R-E-T-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Carro pequeño y abierto, de tracción a sangre.
- 2Carrito en que llevaban antiguamente los afiladores sus herramientas.
- 3Taburete sobre ruedas para llevar a los infantes.
- 4Armazón sobre ruedas en que se montaban las piezas de artillería.
- 5Carro grande que tiene cuatro ruedas pequeñas y que se usaba para trasportar cargas voluminosas.
- 6Tacataca o andador hecho de madera para que los niños aprendan a andar.
- 7Carro pequeño y muy fuerte, con ruedas pequeñas para facilitar la carga. Está construido con un madero central que se prolonga para formar la pértiga y dos largueros rectos que se enlazan con el anterior con cadenas o pasadores. El suelo es de tabloncillos. Se usa para transportar piedras u otros cargamentos brutos. Tiene gran consistencia.
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