claustra

/[ˈklawst̪ɾa]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

claustra is aSpanishnoun. It means: Galeria flanqueada de columnas o arcos que rodea un patio en un edificio, generalmente de tipo conventual o universitario. Pronounced [ˈklawst̪ɾa].

Key facts for claustra
PropertyValue
Headwordclaustra
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈklawst̪ɾa]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

claustra 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 claustra is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈklawst̪ɾa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Galeria flanqueada de columnas o arcos que rodea un patio en un edificio, generalmente de tipo conventual o universitario.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Galeria flanqueada de columnas o arcos que rodea un patio en un edificio, generalmente de tipo conventual o universitario.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "claustra"?
"claustra" is spelled C-L-A-U-S-T-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈklawst̪ɾa].
What does "claustra" mean?
As a noun, "claustra" means: Galeria flanqueada de columnas o arcos que rodea un patio en un edificio, generalmente de tipo conventual o universitario.
How do you pronounce "claustra"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "claustra" is [ˈklawst̪ɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "claustra" 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.