palo borracho

/[ˈpalo β̞oˈrat͡ʃo]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

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palo borracho is aSpanishphrase. It means: (Ceiba speciosa) Árbol de la familia de las bombáceas, de hoja caduca, de 10 a 20 m de altura, aunque no es excepcional que alcance más de 25 m. El tronco, ensanchado en su tercio inferior, le sirv... Pronounced [ˈpalo β̞oˈrat͡ʃo].

Key facts for palo borracho
PropertyValue
Headwordpalo borracho
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈpalo β̞oˈrat͡ʃo]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for palo borracho is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpalo β̞oˈrat͡ʃo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for palo borracho 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 palo borracho, spelled P-A-L-O- -B-O-R-R-A-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Ceiba speciosa) Árbol de la familia de las bombáceas, de hoja caduca, de 10 a 20 m de altura, aunque no es excepcional que alcance más de 25 m. El tronco, ensanchado en su tercio inferior, le sirve para almacenar agua para tiempos de grave sequía. Está protegido por gruesos aguijones cónicos.
  2. 2
    (Ceiba chodatii) Palo borracho de flor blanca.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "palo borracho"?
"palo borracho" is spelled P-A-L-O- -B-O-R-R-A-C-H-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpalo β̞oˈrat͡ʃo].
What does "palo borracho" mean?
As a phrase, "palo borracho" means: (Ceiba speciosa) Árbol de la familia de las bombáceas, de hoja caduca, de 10 a 20 m de altura, aunque no es excepcional que alcance más de 25 m. El tronco, ensanchado en su tercio inferior, le sirv...
How do you pronounce "palo borracho"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "palo borracho" is [ˈpalo β̞oˈrat͡ʃo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "palo borracho" come from?
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