cruz de san Andrés
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18 characters
Language
Spanish
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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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cruz de san Andrés |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈkɾus ð̞e ˈsãn ãn̪ˈd̪ɾes] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Cruz 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.
- 2Señal con la forma de una cruz de san Andrés, que indica la presencia de un cruce ferroviario.
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