hielo seco
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10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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hielo seco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Dióxido de carbono en estado sólido, con una temperatura de sublimación de -78 °C, que se usa como refrigerante o para crear efectos especiales de neblinas. Pronounced [ˈjelo ˈseko].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hielo seco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjelo ˈseko] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for hielo seco is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjelo ˈseko]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hielo seco 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 hielo seco, spelled H-I-E-L-O- -S-E-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dióxido de carbono en estado sólido, con una temperatura de sublimación de -78 °C, que se usa como refrigerante o para crear efectos especiales de neblinas.
- 2Poliestireno expandido.
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