chufa
Letters
5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chufa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o dicho destinada a buscar el ridículo de alguno por diversión o inquina, atacando al adversario Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃufa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chufa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃufa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for chufa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃufa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chufa 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 chufa, spelled C-H-U-F-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o dicho destinada a buscar el ridículo de alguno por diversión o inquina, atacando al adversario
- 2Tubérculo comestible de la juncia avellanada (Cyperus esculentus), de sabor dulce, ligeramente nogado, y muy ricas en lípidos y minerales. Se consumen desde la Antigüedad, y hoy son un alimento usual en África occidental y en España, donde se elabora una horchata con ellas
- 3Golpe que se da en la cara con la palma de la mano
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