quijera
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
quijera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Guarnición de hierro del tablero, de la cureña, o palo de la ballesta. Pronounced [kiˈxeɾa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quijera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kiˈxeɾa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for quijera is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kiˈxeɾa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for quijera 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 quijera, spelled Q-U-I-J-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Guarnición de hierro del tablero, de la cureña, o palo de la ballesta.
- 2Pieza de cuero en la cabezada de los caballos, unida al testero mediante una hebilla en un extremo y en el otro extremo al bocado por medio de un portamozo.
- 3Piezas del almete situadas a la altura de las sienes. Por delante cierran en la barba y protegen las mejillas.
- 4Hierros que, embutidos en el tablero, le guarnecen en la nuez y en la cabeza de la ballesta.
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