sulky

/[ˈsulki]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sulky is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pequeño carruaje, por lo general para uno o dos pasajeros, que se utiliza como una forma de transporte rural en muchas partes del mundo. Destaca por su sencilla construcción y escaso peso. Pronounced [ˈsulki].

Key facts for sulky
PropertyValue
Headwordsulky
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈsulki]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sulky is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sulky is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsulki]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pequeño carruaje, por lo general para uno o dos pasajeros, que se utiliza como una forma de transporte rural en muchas partes del mundo. Destaca por su sencilla construcción y escaso peso.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sulky 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 sulky, spelled S-U-L-K-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Pequeño carruaje, por lo general para uno o dos pasajeros, que se utiliza como una forma de transporte rural en muchas partes del mundo. Destaca por su sencilla construcción y escaso peso.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sulky"?
"sulky" is spelled S-U-L-K-Y. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsulki].
What does "sulky" mean?
As a noun, "sulky" means: Pequeño carruaje, por lo general para uno o dos pasajeros, que se utiliza como una forma de transporte rural en muchas partes del mundo. Destaca por su sencilla construcción y escaso peso.
How do you pronounce "sulky"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sulky" is [ˈsulki]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sulky" come from?
"sulky" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.