cartón pluma
[kaɾˈt̪õn ˈpluma]
The verdict
“cartón pluma” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Panel de espuma de polímero, habitualmente poliestireno o poliuretano, cubierto por una o ambas caras con una lámina de material más rígido, empleado para modelado, impresión o aislamiento.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cartón pluma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kaɾˈt̪õn ˈpluma] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cartón pluma” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cartón pluma is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɾˈt̪õn ˈpluma]. 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: "Panel de espuma de polímero, habitualmente poliestireno o poliuretano, cubierto por una o ambas caras con una lámina de material más rígido, empleado para modelado, impresión o aislamiento.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cartón pluma 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 cartón pluma, spelled C-A-R-T-Ó-N- -P-L-U-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Panel de espuma de polímero, habitualmente poliestireno o poliuretano, cubierto por una o ambas caras con una lámina de material más rígido, empleado para modelado, impresión o aislamiento.
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Using “cartón pluma”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-R-T-Ó-N- -P-L-U-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaɾˈt̪õn ˈpluma] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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