castañuela
Letters
10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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castañuela is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento de percusión de madera hecho con dos mitades de madera cóncavas, que al juntarse tienen un parecido con una castaña. Un cordel sujeto al pulgar las sujeta. Es un instrumento musical de ... Pronounced [kast̪aˈɲwela].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | castañuela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kast̪aˈɲwela] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for castañuela is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kast̪aˈɲwela]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for castañuela 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 castañuela, spelled C-A-S-T-A-Ñ-U-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de percusión de madera hecho con dos mitades de madera cóncavas, que al juntarse tienen un parecido con una castaña. Un cordel sujeto al pulgar las sujeta. Es un instrumento musical de España, Italia y Oriente usado también en orquestas de baile moderno.
- 2(Cyperus rotundus L) Planta de la familia de las Ciperáceas, de 15 a 40 cm de altura, rizomatosa, perenne, grande y erecta, con tallos trígonos, foliosos y ásperos. Inflorescencia umbeliforme con flores pardo rojizas de las que cuelgan hojas planas con el ápice triangular. Vive en suelos húmedos, por toda Europa, sobre todo por el sur.
- 3(Bunium incrassatum) Planta vivaz de la familia de las Apiáceas, hojas estrechas lanceoladas vellosas de color verde, tallo velloso de color rojizo, flores en racimo, raíz negra por fuera y blanca por dentro usada en medicina natural como astringente.
- 4Bordado femenino con forma de castaña.
- 5(Chromis chromis) Pez marino ramoneador que nada junto a las rocas, pertenenciente a los peces coralinos, abunda en aguas españolas. Mide hasta 15 cm, tiene el cuerpo aplanado y hocico pequeño.
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