palangre

/[paˈlãŋgɾe]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

palangre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cordel largo y grueso del cual penden a trechos unos ramales con anzuelos en sus extremos y que se cala en parajes de mucho fondo donde no se puede pescar con redes. Pronounced [paˈlãŋgɾe].

Key facts for palangre
PropertyValue
Headwordpalangre
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[paˈlãŋgɾe]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

palangre is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for palangre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈlãŋgɾe]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for palangre 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 palangre, spelled P-A-L-A-N-G-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cordel largo y grueso del cual penden a trechos unos ramales con anzuelos en sus extremos y que se cala en parajes de mucho fondo donde no se puede pescar con redes.
  2. 2
    Negocio oportunista de donde se obtiene una gran ganancia.
  3. 3
    Coima que se les ofrece a los periodistas para que publiquen información sesgada con el fin de perjudicar a alguien en particular.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "palangre"?
"palangre" is spelled P-A-L-A-N-G-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [paˈlãŋgɾe].
What does "palangre" mean?
As a noun, "palangre" means: Cordel largo y grueso del cual penden a trechos unos ramales con anzuelos en sus extremos y que se cala en parajes de mucho fondo donde no se puede pescar con redes.
How do you pronounce "palangre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "palangre" is [paˈlãŋgɾe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "palangre" come from?
"palangre" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.