chancla
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#55,452
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chancla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Zapato viejo y roto, con el talón gastado. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃãŋkla].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chancla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃãŋkla] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chancla is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃãŋkla]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,452 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 chancla 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 chancla, spelled C-H-A-N-C-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Zapato viejo y roto, con el talón gastado.
- 2Calzado playero abierto, que se sujeta al pie con un par de tirantes que van desde el espacio entre los dedos pulgar e índice hasta el talón. Es fabricado industrialmente con materiales plásticos.
- 3Zapato ligero de tela o cuero, con suela plana sin tacón, usado habitualmente dentro del hogar.
- 4Mujer que siente atracción sexual por otras mujeres.
Frequency rank: #55,452 in Spanish
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