filacteria
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10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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filacteria is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cinta o banda, con las extremidades enrolladas y que lleva escrita una leyenda. Pronounced [filakˈt̪eɾja].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filacteria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [filakˈt̪eɾja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for filacteria is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [filakˈt̪eɾja]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for filacteria 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 filacteria, spelled F-I-L-A-C-T-E-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cinta o banda, con las extremidades enrolladas y que lleva escrita una leyenda.
- 2Implemento ritual, compuesto por dos pequeñas cajuelas de madera recubiertas en cuero y dotadas de una correa del mismo material con la cual se fijan una al brazo izquierdo y otra a la frente durante ciertas plegarias en la tradición judía. En su interior se guardan cuatro fragmentos de pergamino inscritos por un sofer o escriba ritual, con las mismas precauciones tomadas para los rollos de la Torá, con cuatro textos bíblicos, tomados de Deuteronomio 64-9; Deuteronomio 113-21; Éxodo 131-10; y Éxodo 1311-16.
- 3Objeto empleado como amuleto o protección contra el peligro o el mal.
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