sábalo
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Language
Spanish
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sábalo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Prochilodus lineatus) Pez de la familia de los actinoptérigos, de cuerpo largo y comprimido, gris-verdoso (aclarado en el vientre), con escamas amarillentas. Su boca es circular, bordeada por labi... Pronounced [ˈsaβ̞alo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sábalo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsaβ̞alo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for sábalo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsaβ̞alo]. 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 sábalo 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 sábalo, spelled S-Á-B-A-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Prochilodus lineatus) Pez de la familia de los actinoptérigos, de cuerpo largo y comprimido, gris-verdoso (aclarado en el vientre), con escamas amarillentas. Su boca es circular, bordeada por labios gruesos, y se proyecta del frente. Alcanza los 60 cm de largo y los 6 kg de peso. Es la especie más abundante de la cuenca del Plata, llegando a constituir más del 60% de la biomasa de peces de la misma.
- 2(Alosa alosa) Pez de la familia Clupeidae. Antiguamente común desde Escandinavia hasta el Mediterráneo occidental, actualmente es raro en el norte de Europa y las Islas Británicas. Se considera extinto en muchos ríos europeos.
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