corchete
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8 characters
Language
Spanish
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corchete is aSpanishnoun. It means: Grapa (broche metálico). Pronounced [koɾˈt͡ʃet̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corchete |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koɾˈt͡ʃet̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for corchete is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koɾˈt͡ʃet̪e]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for corchete 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 corchete, spelled C-O-R-C-H-E-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grapa (broche metálico).
- 2En particular, el macho del corchete o grapa.
- 3Pieza de madera, con unos dientes de hierro, con la que los carpinteros sujetan el madero que han de labrar.
- 4Signo ortográfico doble, con sintaxis de apertura y de cierre ([ y ]). Se usa de forma similar al paréntesis, pero para introducir fragmentos a interpretación del autor durante la reconstrucción de un texto ajeno, para encerrar las transcripciones fonéticas, o bien para indicar omisión del texto cuando encierran tres puntos suspensivos.
- 5Parte final de una dicción o período que, por no caber en el renglón, se pone encima o debajo de él, y suele ir precedida de un corchete.
- 6Ministro inferior de justicia encargado de prender a los delincuentes.
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