espeque
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
espeque is aSpanishnoun. It means: Palanca de madera, redonda por una extremidad y cuadrada por la otra, de que se sirven los artilleros. Pronounced [esˈpeke].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espeque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈpeke] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for espeque is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈpeke]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for espeque 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 espeque, spelled E-S-P-E-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Palanca de madera, redonda por una extremidad y cuadrada por la otra, de que se sirven los artilleros.
- 2Puntal para sostener una pared.
- 3Palanca recta de madera resistente.
- 4Palo puntiagudo que sirve para arrancar las raíces de la tierra y abrir huecos en los que sembrar.
- 5Cada uno de los palos rectos y puntiagudos de color verde que se fijan sobre el mar, en el costado opuesto al de las boyas (rojas), para marcar los límites de un canal de navegación. Dependiendo de la convenciones y normas que rijan en la región en donde se navega, pueden ser los espeques que deben ir a babor y las boyas a estribor o bien podría ser lo opuesto.
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