hallaca
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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hallaca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Alimento preparado con masa de maíz que se puede mezclar con una gran cantidad de alimentos, por ejemplo: fríjol, especias, carne de res, pollo, cerdo. La mezcla se envuelve en grandes hojas de div... Pronounced [aˈʝaka].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hallaca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈʝaka] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for hallaca is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈʝaka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for hallaca 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 hallaca, spelled H-A-L-L-A-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Alimento preparado con masa de maíz que se puede mezclar con una gran cantidad de alimentos, por ejemplo: fríjol, especias, carne de res, pollo, cerdo. La mezcla se envuelve en grandes hojas de diversas plantas y se cuece al vapor.
- 2Conjunto envuelto hecho sin cuidado.
- 3Monedero o billetero bien relleno.
- 4Porción de hachís envuelta.
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