quelvo
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
quelvo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada uno de los dos trozos de madera cilíndricos que, dispuestos transversalmente al tejedor, sostienen y tensan el tejido en un telar. Pronounced [ˈkelβ̞o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quelvo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkelβ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quelvo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkelβ̞o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quelvo 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 quelvo, spelled Q-U-E-L-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada uno de los dos trozos de madera cilíndricos que, dispuestos transversalmente al tejedor, sostienen y tensan el tejido en un telar.
- 2Por extensión, telar cuadrado de grandes dimensiones que se usa horizontalmente, sostenido por soportes de unos 30 cm de altura, de modo que hay que tejer arrodillado. Toma las estructuras y sus nombres del telar mapuche, que es vertical. En él se confeccionan principalmente frazadas, ponchos y sabanillas.
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