zalagarda
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
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zalagarda is aSpanishnoun. It means: Emboscada dispuesta para coger descuidado al enemigo y dar sobre él sin recelo. Pronounced [salaˈɣ̞aɾð̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zalagarda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [salaˈɣ̞aɾð̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for zalagarda is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [salaˈɣ̞aɾð̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zalagarda 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 zalagarda, spelled Z-A-L-A-G-A-R-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Emboscada dispuesta para coger descuidado al enemigo y dar sobre él sin recelo.
- 2Género de pelea entre los jinetes o soldados de a caballo, que van picando de rodeo, acometiendo a veces, y a veces huyendo con grande ligereza.
- 3Lazo que se arma para que caigan en él los animales.
- 4Astucia maliciosa con que uno procura engañar a otro afectando obsequio y cortesía.
- 5Pendencia, regularmente fingida, de palos y cuchilladas, en que hay mucha bulla, voces y estruendo.
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