gerifalte
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9 characters
Language
Spanish
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gerifalte is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Falco rusticolus) Ave rapaz, con plumaje pardo con rayas claras en las penas de las alas y cola, y blanquecino con listas cenicientas en el vientre. Es el halcón mayor que se conoce, pues tiene 60... Pronounced [xeɾiˈfal̪t̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gerifalte |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [xeɾiˈfal̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for gerifalte is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xeɾiˈfal̪t̪e]. 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 gerifalte 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 gerifalte, spelled G-E-R-I-F-A-L-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Falco rusticolus) Ave rapaz, con plumaje pardo con rayas claras en las penas de las alas y cola, y blanquecino con listas cenicientas en el vientre. Es el halcón mayor que se conoce, pues tiene 60 cm de largo y catorce de envergadura; vive ordinariamente en el norte de Europa. También llamada girifalte en España en el período medieval y renacentista.
- 2Antigua pieza de artillería, especie de culebrina de muy poco calibre.
- 3Persona con un cargo de responsabilidad elevado en una empresa, centro académico o político, ocupando las altas esferas del mismo.
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