chancleta

/[t͡ʃãŋˈklet̪a]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chancleta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Calzado 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 o con una tira que rodea el pie por encima a la altura del empein... Pronounced [t͡ʃãŋˈklet̪a].

Key facts for chancleta
PropertyValue
Headwordchancleta
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[t͡ʃãŋˈklet̪a]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chancleta 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 chancleta is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃãŋˈklet̪a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chancleta 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 chancleta, spelled C-H-A-N-C-L-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Calzado 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 o con una tira que rodea el pie por encima a la altura del empeine. Es fabricado industrialmente con materiales plásticos.
  2. 2
    Calzado de suela fina sin talón, o con el reborde posterior aplastado, que se usa por comodidad dentro de casa.
  3. 3
    Zapato recubierto por tiras de cuero que dejan espacios para ventilación del pie, que se usa sobre todo en verano y en lugares calurosos.
  4. 4
    Recién nacido de sexo femenino.
  5. 5
    Persona buena para nada, inepta.
  6. 6
    Zapato viejo y destrozado.
  7. 7
    Pedal del acelerador de un automóvil.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chancleta"?
"chancleta" is spelled C-H-A-N-C-L-E-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [t͡ʃãŋˈklet̪a].
What does "chancleta" mean?
As a noun, "chancleta" means: Calzado 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 o con una tira que rodea el pie por encima a la altura del empein...
How do you pronounce "chancleta"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chancleta" is [t͡ʃãŋˈklet̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chancleta" come from?
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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.