colocolo
Letters
8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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colocolo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ser mitológico que chupaba la sustancia de una persona a través de su saliva, haciéndola adelgazar hasta morir. Su forma varía según las regiones geográficas: una laucha con plumas que cacarea, una... Pronounced [koloˈkolo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colocolo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koloˈkolo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for colocolo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koloˈkolo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for colocolo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 colocolo, spelled C-O-L-O-C-O-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ser mitológico que chupaba la sustancia de una persona a través de su saliva, haciéndola adelgazar hasta morir. Su forma varía según las regiones geográficas: una laucha con plumas que cacarea, una serpiente o un ratón con cabeza de gallo.
- 2(Oncifelis colocolo) Felino sudamericano que habita desde Ecuador y el Matto Grosso del Brasil por el norte hasta el sur de la Patagonia argentina y chilena. Vive tanto en estepas como en zonas de matorral y bosques. Es de cola más corta que el gato montés andino, mide unos 79 cm de largo y pesa entre 3 y 4 kilos.
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