quinqui
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7 characters
Language
Spanish
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quinqui is aSpanishnoun. It means: Etnia de origen incierto, presumiblemente mozárabe, y hábitos seminómadas que habita España; confundida muchas veces con los roma, con los que no tienen relación probada, mantuvieron contactos sólo... Pronounced [ˈkĩŋki].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinqui |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkĩŋki] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for quinqui is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkĩŋki]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for quinqui 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 quinqui, spelled Q-U-I-N-Q-U-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Etnia de origen incierto, presumiblemente mozárabe, y hábitos seminómadas que habita España; confundida muchas veces con los roma, con los que no tienen relación probada, mantuvieron contactos sólo esporádicos con los grupos dominantes hasta fines del siglo XIX. Hoy están en buena medida mestizados con los gitanos. Hablan una lengua propia, de origen desconocido.
- 2Maleante, malhechor callejero.
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