threshold
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9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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threshold is aSpanishnoun. It means: La parte más baja de una puerta que se cruza para entrar; umbral. Pronounced /ˈθɹɛʃ.həʊld/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | threshold |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈθɹɛʃ.həʊld/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for threshold is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈθɹɛʃ.həʊld/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for threshold 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 threshold, spelled T-H-R-E-S-H-O-L-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1La parte más baja de una puerta que se cruza para entrar; umbral.
- 2(por extensión) Una entrada; la puerta o portón de una casa.
- 3(por extensión) Cualquier término o límite.
- 4(figurativo) El inicio de algo; el punto de entrada, o el comienzo de una acción.
- 5El inicio de la zona de aterrizaje de una pista.
- 6El punto cuantitativo en el cual una acción se desencadena, especialmente un límite inferior.
- 7El sueldo o salario a partir del cual se debe pagar el impuesto a la renta.
- 8El punto donde alguien es física o mentalmente vulnerable en respuesta a una provocación o a otras molestias.
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