plomada

/[ploˈmað̞a]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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plomada is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pesa de plomo o de otro metal, cilíndrica o cónica, que colgada de una cuerda sirve para señalar la línea vertical. Pronounced [ploˈmað̞a].

Key facts for plomada
PropertyValue
Headwordplomada
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ploˈmað̞a]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

plomada is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for plomada is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ploˈmað̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for plomada 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 plomada, spelled P-L-O-M-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pesa de plomo o de otro metal, cilíndrica o cónica, que colgada de una cuerda sirve para señalar la línea vertical.
  2. 2
    Estilo o barrita de plomo, que sirve a los artífices para señalar o reglar una cosa.
  3. 3
    Conjunto de plomos que se ponen en la red para pescar.
  4. 4
    Azote hecho de correas, en cuyo remate había unas bolas de plomo.
  5. 5
    Plancha de plomo que se colocaba sobre el oído del cañón, para preservar la pólvora de la humedad y evitar que por descuido pudiese inflamarse la carga.
  6. 6
    Acción de echar el plomo ó perpendículo.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plomada"?
"plomada" is spelled P-L-O-M-A-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ploˈmað̞a].
What does "plomada" mean?
As a noun, "plomada" means: Pesa de plomo o de otro metal, cilíndrica o cónica, que colgada de una cuerda sirve para señalar la línea vertical.
How do you pronounce "plomada"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plomada" is [ploˈmað̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plomada" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.