quinta columna
Letters
14 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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quinta columna is aSpanishphrase. It means: Soldados o guerrilleros que actúan en operaciones militares detrás de las líneas enemigas, camuflándose entre sus adversarios. Pronounced [ˈkĩn̪t̪a koˈlũmna].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinta columna |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈkĩn̪t̪a koˈlũmna] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for quinta columna is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkĩn̪t̪a koˈlũmna]. 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 quinta columna 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 quinta columna, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A- -C-O-L-U-M-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Soldados o guerrilleros que actúan en operaciones militares detrás de las líneas enemigas, camuflándose entre sus adversarios.
- 2Por extensión, toda aquella persona o grupo que es acusado de destruir desde dentro una organización, comunidad, grupo, etc., con el objeto de facilitar el trabajo al enemigo de éstos (Véase sabotaje).
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