chancleta
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chancleta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃãŋˈklet̪a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Calzado 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.
- 2Calzado de suela fina sin talón, o con el reborde posterior aplastado, que se usa por comodidad dentro de casa.
- 3Zapato recubierto por tiras de cuero que dejan espacios para ventilación del pie, que se usa sobre todo en verano y en lugares calurosos.
- 4Recién nacido de sexo femenino.
- 5Persona buena para nada, inepta.
- 6Zapato viejo y destrozado.
- 7Pedal del acelerador de un automóvil.
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