pistolete

/[pist̪oˈlet̪e]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pistolete is aSpanishnoun. It means: Arma de fuego más corta que la pistola. Pronounced [pist̪oˈlet̪e].

Key facts for pistolete
PropertyValue
Headwordpistolete
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pist̪oˈlet̪e]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pistolete 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 pistolete is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pist̪oˈlet̪e]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for pistolete 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 pistolete, spelled P-I-S-T-O-L-E-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arma de fuego más corta que la pistola.
  2. 2
    Émbolo de bomba.
  3. 3
    LLave en forma de émbolo que tienen diversos instrumentos musicos.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pistolete"?
"pistolete" is spelled P-I-S-T-O-L-E-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [pist̪oˈlet̪e].
What does "pistolete" mean?
As a noun, "pistolete" means: Arma de fuego más corta que la pistola.
How do you pronounce "pistolete"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pistolete" is [pist̪oˈlet̪e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pistolete" 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.