chala
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#59,862
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chala is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hoja alargada y firme que cubre la mazorca del maíz, usada tradicionalmente como relleno de jergones y como envoltorio de cigarros y preparados culinarios. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃala].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chala |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃala] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chala is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃala]. Corpus data places it at rank #59,862 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chala 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 chala, spelled C-H-A-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hoja alargada y firme que cubre la mazorca del maíz, usada tradicionalmente como relleno de jergones y como envoltorio de cigarros y preparados culinarios.
- 2Bien que se usa para el pago de otros bienes y servicios y como unidad de medida de la riqueza.
- 3Picadura de las sumidades floridas de la marihuana, utilizada como psicoactivo.
- 4Tipo de calzado formado por una suela y correas de sujeción.
Frequency rank: #59,862 in Spanish
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