malacate
Letters
8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
malacate is aSpanishnoun. It means: Utensilio utilizado para hilar, formado por una varilla aguzada en sus dos extremos y usualmente con un peso añadido en uno de ellos. Pronounced [malaˈkat̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malacate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [malaˈkat̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for malacate is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [malaˈkat̪e]. 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 malacate 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 malacate, spelled M-A-L-A-C-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Utensilio utilizado para hilar, formado por una varilla aguzada en sus dos extremos y usualmente con un peso añadido en uno de ellos.
- 2Pieza de diferentes materiales utilizada como contrapeso y tope en un malacate₁. Usualmente tiene forma de disco o de esfera con un orificio central.
- 3Máquina, generalmente motorizada empleada para levantar o desplazar objetos pesados.
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