palqui

/[ˈpalki]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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palqui is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Cestrum parqui) Arbusto americano de la familia de las solanáceas, de tallos rectos, hojas lisas un poco redondas terminadas en punta, de color verde oscuro. Despide un olor desagradable. Sus frut... Pronounced [ˈpalki].

Key facts for palqui
PropertyValue
Headwordpalqui
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈpalki]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

palqui 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 palqui is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpalki]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for palqui 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 palqui, spelled P-A-L-Q-U-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Cestrum parqui) Arbusto americano de la familia de las solanáceas, de tallos rectos, hojas lisas un poco redondas terminadas en punta, de color verde oscuro. Despide un olor desagradable. Sus frutos son pequeña bayas de color negro, venenosos. En medicina natural se emplea el cocimiento de las hojas y la corteza para lavar heridas, aliviar la picazón originada por el litre, en compresas contra las quemaduras, la tiña. En infusión es sudorífico y febrífugo.
  2. 2
    (Vestia foetida) Arbusto de poco más de 1 m de altura, con ramas largas y hojas simples de hasta 6 cm de longitud y forma elíptico-lanceolada. Las flores son amarillas con una corola de 5 pétalos de forma tubular, abierta en su extremo y el fruto es una cápsula. Toda la planta despide un olor muy desagradable por la presencia de alcaloides. En medicina natural se emplea para curar la disentería y la apendicitis. Es una planta tóxica.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "palqui"?
"palqui" is spelled P-A-L-Q-U-I. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpalki].
What does "palqui" mean?
As a noun, "palqui" means: (Cestrum parqui) Arbusto americano de la familia de las solanáceas, de tallos rectos, hojas lisas un poco redondas terminadas en punta, de color verde oscuro. Despide un olor desagradable. Sus frut...
How do you pronounce "palqui"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "palqui" is [ˈpalki]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "palqui" come from?
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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.