quitón
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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similar word pairs
quitón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Prenda de vestir de la antigua Grecia semejante a una túnica, usada tanto por hombres como por mujeres. Pronounced [kiˈt̪õn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quitón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kiˈt̪õn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for quitón is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kiˈt̪õn]. 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 quitón 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 quitón, spelled Q-U-I-T-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prenda de vestir de la antigua Grecia semejante a una túnica, usada tanto por hombres como por mujeres.
- 2(Chiton) Molusco del grupo de los anfineuros, con caparazón de ocho piezas alineadas e imbricadas de adelante hacia atrás, que le permiten arrollarse en bola.
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