cuartear
Letters
8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cuartear is aSpanishverb. It means: Partir o dividir una cosa en cuartas partes. Pronounced [kwaɾt̪eˈaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuartear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kwaɾt̪eˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuartear is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kwaɾt̪eˈaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cuartear 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 cuartear, spelled C-U-A-R-T-E-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partir o dividir una cosa en cuartas partes.
- 2Por extensión: dividir en más o menos partes.
- 3Descuartizar
- 4Echar la puja del cuarto en las rentas ya rematadas; lo cual se podía hacer dentro de los noventa días primeros de cada año de los del arrendamiento, y no después.
- 5Entrar a cumplir el número de cuatro para jugar algún juego.
- 6En las cuestas y malos pasos de los caminos, dirigir los carruajes de derecha a izquierda, y viceversa, en vez de seguir la linea recta.
- 7Encuartar, enganchar.
- 8Azotar repetidas veces con la cuarta.
- 9Ayudar a alguien a salir de un aprieto.
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