cola de caballo

/[ˈkola ð̞e kaˈβ̞aʝo]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cola de caballo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Peinado en el que el cabello se recoge hacia atrás y se recoge en una sola coleta que cuelga detrás de la cabeza. Pronounced [ˈkola ð̞e kaˈβ̞aʝo].

Key facts for cola de caballo
PropertyValue
Headwordcola de caballo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈkola ð̞e kaˈβ̞aʝo]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cola de caballo 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 cola de caballo is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkola ð̞e kaˈβ̞aʝo]. 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: "Peinado en el que el cabello se recoge hacia atrás y se recoge en una sola coleta que cuelga detrás de la cabeza.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cola de caballo 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 cola de caballo, spelled C-O-L-A- -D-E- -C-A-B-A-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Peinado en el que el cabello se recoge hacia atrás y se recoge en una sola coleta que cuelga detrás de la cabeza.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cola de caballo"?
"cola de caballo" is spelled C-O-L-A- -D-E- -C-A-B-A-L-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkola ð̞e kaˈβ̞aʝo].
What does "cola de caballo" mean?
As a phrase, "cola de caballo" means: Peinado en el que el cabello se recoge hacia atrás y se recoge en una sola coleta que cuelga detrás de la cabeza.
How do you pronounce "cola de caballo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cola de caballo" is [ˈkola ð̞e kaˈβ̞aʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cola de caballo" 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.