palto
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Language
Spanish
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palto is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Persea americana) Árbol de la familia de las lauráceas, nativo de América tropical. Alcanza los 20 m de altura, con hojas ovadas, perennes, de hasta 25 cm de largo. Presenta flores inconspicuas, d... Pronounced [ˈpal̪t̪o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpal̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for palto is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpal̪t̪o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Persea americana) Árbol de la familia de las lauráceas, nativo de América tropical. Alcanza los 20 m de altura, con hojas ovadas, perennes, de hasta 25 cm de largo. Presenta flores inconspicuas, d...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for palto 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 palto, spelled P-A-L-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Persea americana) Árbol de la familia de las lauráceas, nativo de América tropical. Alcanza los 20 m de altura, con hojas ovadas, perennes, de hasta 25 cm de largo. Presenta flores inconspicuas, de color amarillo verdoso y unos 10 mm de diámetro, que fructifican dando lugar a una baya piriforme, cubierta por una cáscara verde, dura y áspera, que protege una pulpa verdeamarillenta, comestible, muy rica en lípidos, con una única semilla de hasta 5 cm de diámetro en su interior. Se cultiva por este fruto, del que puede dar hasta 120 unidades anualmente en buenas condiciones.
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