maxila
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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maxila is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte superior de las mandíbulas (las piezas de hueso o cartílago que forman la boca de los vertebrados, en las cuales están los dientes). Pronounced [makˈsila].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maxila |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [makˈsila] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for maxila is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [makˈsila]. 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 maxila 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 maxila, spelled M-A-X-I-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte superior de las mandíbulas (las piezas de hueso o cartílago que forman la boca de los vertebrados, en las cuales están los dientes).
- 2Cada uno de los dos huesos principales que forman el maxiliar superior o la parte de arriba de la mandíbula.
- 3Pieza de la boca de ciertos animales artrópodos, generalmente dotada de palpos o apéndices sensoriales.
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