ocal
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4 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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ocal is anSpanishadj. It means: Dicho de un capullo de gusano de seda, que aloja a más de una larva, dejando un hueco considerable entre ambos. Pronounced [oˈkal].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ocal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [oˈkal] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for ocal is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈkal]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for ocal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 ocal, spelled O-C-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de un capullo de gusano de seda, que aloja a más de una larva, dejando un hueco considerable entre ambos.
- 2Por extensión, dicho de la seda, procedente de un capullo ocal₁.
- 3Por extensión, grande y vistoso.
- 4En especial, dicho de una fruta o flor, de tamaño excepcional y sabor delicado.
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