petate
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#76,638
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
petate is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tipo de alfombra tejida, se elabora a base de fibras de la planta llamada Palma de Petate Thrinax Morrissi. Generalmente son tejidos en forma cuadrangular, mas no observan una medida exacta, necesa... Pronounced [peˈt̪at̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | petate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peˈt̪at̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for petate is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peˈt̪at̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #76,638 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 petate 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 petate, spelled P-E-T-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tipo de alfombra tejida, se elabora a base de fibras de la planta llamada Palma de Petate Thrinax Morrissi. Generalmente son tejidos en forma cuadrangular, mas no observan una medida exacta, necesariamente. Se usa principalmente para extenderlo en el suelo y acostarse a dormir sobre él. Comúnmente, durante el día se mantiene enrollado.
- 2Estrategia en juegos de apuestas, especialmente el póquer, donde se trata de hacer creer a los oponentes, mediante una apuesta fuerte, que se tiene una mano fuerte, esperando ahuyentar a los rivales. También se conoce como farolear, bluffear, robar.
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Frequency rank: #76,638 in Spanish
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