cruz de san Andrés

/[ˈkɾus ð̞e ˈsãn ãn̪ˈd̪ɾes]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

cruz de san Andrés is aSpanishphrase. It means: Cruz en forma de aspa (por lo general con dos ángulos agudos y dos ángulos obtusos) muy utilizada en heráldica y en vexilología. Representa el martirio de san Andrés. Pronounced [ˈkɾus ð̞e ˈsãn ãn̪ˈd̪ɾes].

Key facts for cruz de san Andrés
PropertyValue
Headwordcruz de san Andrés
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈkɾus ð̞e ˈsãn ãn̪ˈd̪ɾes]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cruz de san Andrés 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 cruz de san Andrés is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾus ð̞e ˈsãn ãn̪ˈd̪ɾes]. 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 cruz de san Andrés 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 cruz de san Andrés, spelled C-R-U-Z- -D-E- -S-A-N- -A-N-D-R-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cruz en forma de aspa (por lo general con dos ángulos agudos y dos ángulos obtusos) muy utilizada en heráldica y en vexilología. Representa el martirio de san Andrés.
  2. 2
    Señal con la forma de una cruz de san Andrés, que indica la presencia de un cruce ferroviario.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cruz de san Andrés"?
"cruz de san Andrés" is spelled C-R-U-Z- -D-E- -S-A-N- -A-N-D-R-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkɾus ð̞e ˈsãn ãn̪ˈd̪ɾes].
What does "cruz de san Andrés" mean?
As a phrase, "cruz de san Andrés" means: Cruz en forma de aspa (por lo general con dos ángulos agudos y dos ángulos obtusos) muy utilizada en heráldica y en vexilología. Representa el martirio de san Andrés.
How do you pronounce "cruz de san Andrés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cruz de san Andrés" is [ˈkɾus ð̞e ˈsãn ãn̪ˈd̪ɾes]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.