matacán
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7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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matacán is aSpanishnoun. It means: Composición venenosa para matar perros. Pronounced [mat̪aˈkãn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matacán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mat̪aˈkãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for matacán is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mat̪aˈkãn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for matacán 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 matacán, spelled M-A-T-A-C-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Composición venenosa para matar perros.
- 2En especial, el alcaloide neurotóxico que se obtiene de la nuez vómica (Strychnos nux-vomica).
- 3(Strychnos nux-vomica) Nuez vómica.
- 4Voladizo parapetado, de piso calado, que se usaba para arrojar proyectiles contra un asaltante.
- 5Trozo de cascajo que cabe en la mano.
- 6Varón joven, en su infancia o mocedad.
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