contraventana
Letters
13 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
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contraventana is aSpanishnoun. It means: Panel protector, usualmente de madera, que se ubica fuera de la ventana para impedir el paso de la luz. Pronounced [kõn̪t̪ɾaβ̞ẽn̪ˈt̪ana].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contraventana |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪ɾaβ̞ẽn̪ˈt̪ana] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for contraventana is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪t̪ɾaβ̞ẽn̪ˈt̪ana]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for contraventana 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 contraventana, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-V-E-N-T-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Panel protector, usualmente de madera, que se ubica fuera de la ventana para impedir el paso de la luz.
- 2Puerta de madera que en los países fríos se pone en la parte de afuera para mayor resguardo de las ventanas y vidrieras.
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