nalca
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Language
Spanish
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nalca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pecíolo comestible de Gunnera tinctoria que se pela en una forma parecida a como se pelan las ramas de un apio, y posteriormente se come sólo o con sal. Su epidermis es verdosa o morada y está cubi... Pronounced [ˈnalka].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nalca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnalka] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for nalca is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnalka]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nalca 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 nalca, spelled N-A-L-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pecíolo comestible de Gunnera tinctoria que se pela en una forma parecida a como se pelan las ramas de un apio, y posteriormente se come sólo o con sal. Su epidermis es verdosa o morada y está cubierta de espinas cortas, mientras su interior es fibroso, de color rosado intenso o blanquecino. Su sabor es refrescante con cierto grado de astringencia.
- 2Por extensión, Gunnera tinctoria, una planta comestible de la familia de las gunneráceas que habita en Chile y Argentina. Consiste en un gran tallo subterráneo que puede tener más de 5 m de largo, peciolos recubiertos de espinas y hojas también espinosas de grandes dimensiones.
- 3Por analogía, cada una de las piernas de una mujer.
- 4Mala nota, mala calificación escolar.
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