ukelín
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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ukelín is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento similar al dulcémele o al salterio y con dos grupos de cuerdas, uno de los cuales se frota con un arco mientras en el otro se interpreta el acompañamiento con dedos, púa o plectro. Pronounced [ukeˈlĩn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ukelín |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ukeˈlĩn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for ukelín is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ukeˈlĩn]. 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: "Instrumento similar al dulcémele o al salterio y con dos grupos de cuerdas, uno de los cuales se frota con un arco mientras en el otro se interpreta el acompañamiento con dedos, púa o plectro.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ukelín 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 ukelín, spelled U-K-E-L-Í-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento similar al dulcémele o al salterio y con dos grupos de cuerdas, uno de los cuales se frota con un arco mientras en el otro se interpreta el acompañamiento con dedos, púa o plectro.
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