gatera
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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similar word pairs
gatera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Abertura que se practica en las puertas o paredes de las casas para permitir el paso de los animales domésticos, especialmente los gatos Pronounced [gaˈt̪eɾa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gatera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gaˈt̪eɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for gatera is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gaˈt̪eɾa]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for gatera in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 gatera, spelled G-A-T-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abertura que se practica en las puertas o paredes de las casas para permitir el paso de los animales domésticos, especialmente los gatos
- 2Abertura circular, guarecida de hierro, que permite el acceso a la estiba de las cadenas desde la cubierta de un buque
- 3Jaula metálica colocada en la línea de partida de los hipódromos, en la que permanecen los caballos de carrera hasta la señal de partida
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