parteaguas
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#90,194
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
parteaguas is aSpanishnoun. It means: Línea imaginaria que separa las aguas pluviales de dos cuencas hidrográficas contiguas. Líneas divisorias de esta índole han fungido históricamente como límites territoriales. Pronounced [paɾt̪eˈaɣ̞was].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parteaguas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paɾt̪eˈaɣ̞was] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for parteaguas is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paɾt̪eˈaɣ̞was]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,194 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for parteaguas 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 parteaguas, spelled P-A-R-T-E-A-G-U-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Línea imaginaria que separa las aguas pluviales de dos cuencas hidrográficas contiguas. Líneas divisorias de esta índole han fungido históricamente como límites territoriales.
- 2Momento, personaje o suceso de trascendencia tal que aparenta dividir o separar lo previo de lo consecuente.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #90,194 in Spanish
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