santiguar
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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santiguar is aSpanishverb. It means: Trazar la señal de la cruz (al tocarse con la mano derecha sucesivamente la frente, el pecho y cada hombro) sobre algo o alguien como oración o invocación al dios de los cristianos, en nombre de la... Pronounced [sãn̪t̪iˈɣ̞waɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | santiguar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sãn̪t̪iˈɣ̞waɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for santiguar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sãn̪t̪iˈɣ̞waɾ]. 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 santiguar 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 santiguar, spelled S-A-N-T-I-G-U-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Trazar la señal de la cruz (al tocarse con la mano derecha sucesivamente la frente, el pecho y cada hombro) sobre algo o alguien como oración o invocación al dios de los cristianos, en nombre de las tres personas de la Santísima Trinidad (el Padre, el Hijo y el Espíritu Santo).
- 2Obrar de modo negativo o adverso contra alguien.
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