chape
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#87,607
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chape is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cabello trenzado, trenza. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃape].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chape |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃape] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chape is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃape]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,607 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chape 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 chape, spelled C-H-A-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cabello trenzado, trenza.
- 2Tipo de molusco similar al caracol, pero sin concha, que hace grandes destrozos en los jardines.
- 3(Fissurella spp.) Nombre común de numerosas especies de fisurélidos, gasterópodos marinos, que tienen una cubierta no en espiral sino abovedada, con un amplio orificio en la zona ventral.
- 4(Caliroa cerasi) Insecto del orden de los himenópteros que en su estado de larva se alimenta de las hojas de los cerezos, dejando sólo la nervadura. La larva tiene el aspecto de un gusano negro redondeado y despide un olor penetrante.
- 5Genitales externos de la mujer.
- 6Español, persona originaria de España.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #87,607 in Spanish
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