pasamano

/[pasaˈmano]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pasamano is aSpanishnoun. It means: Listón ubicado encima de las barandillas. Pronounced [pasaˈmano].

Key facts for pasamano
PropertyValue
Headwordpasamano
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pasaˈmano]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pasamano 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 pasamano is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pasaˈmano]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for pasamano 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 pasamano, spelled P-A-S-A-M-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Listón ubicado encima de las barandillas.
  2. 2
    Juego infantil de plaza, construido mediante un arco de hierro sobre el suelo, atravesado por barras (similar a una escalera) en donde el objetivo es dar la vuelta de un lado hacia el otro.
  3. 3
    Baranda de la que se agarran los pasajeros que viajan parados en un colectivo.
  4. 4
    Paso que hay en los navíos de popa a proa, junto a la borda.
  5. 5
    Espacio angosto que se deja al lado de un portón para que pase la gente.
  6. 6
    En las casas de campo, muro construido entre las columnas para sentarse.
  7. 7
    Preso que puede manipular y obtener favores de las autoridades carcelarias.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pasamano"?
"pasamano" is spelled P-A-S-A-M-A-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [pasaˈmano].
What does "pasamano" mean?
As a noun, "pasamano" means: Listón ubicado encima de las barandillas.
How do you pronounce "pasamano"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pasamano" is [pasaˈmano]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pasamano" 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.