repelar
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
repelar is aSpanishverb. It means: Tirar del pelo o arrancarlo. Pronounced [repeˈlaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repelar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [repeˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for repelar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [repeˈlaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for repelar 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 repelar, spelled R-E-P-E-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tirar del pelo o arrancarlo.
- 2Hacer dar al caballo una carrera corta.
- 3Cortar las puntas a la hierba.
- 4Cercenar, quitar, disminuir.
- 5Eliminar el pelo cortándolo al rape.
- 6Refunfuñar a lo que se manda, ejecutándolo de mala gana.
- 7Pastorear el ganado por segunda vez en una misma zona.
- 8Recoger la última cosecha de café sin seleccionar los granos por madurez.
- 9Llamar la atención un superior a un subalterno.
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