čelái

//ʨeˈla.i// verb

Letters

5 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

čelái is aSpanishverb. It means: Golpear, pegar. Pronounced /ʨeˈla.i/.

Key facts for čelái
PropertyValue
Headwordčelái
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA/ʨeˈla.i/
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

čelái is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for čelái is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʨeˈla.i/. 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: "Golpear, pegar.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for čelái 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 čelái, spelled Č-E-L-Á-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Golpear, pegar.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "čelái"?
"čelái" is spelled Č-E-L-Á-I. The IPA pronunciation is /ʨeˈla.i/.
What does "čelái" mean?
As a verb, "čelái" means: Golpear, pegar.
How do you pronounce "čelái"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "čelái" is /ʨeˈla.i/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "čelái" come from?
"čelái" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.