zancajo
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
zancajo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hueso del pie que forma el talón. Pronounced [sãŋˈkaxo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zancajo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sãŋˈkaxo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for zancajo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sãŋˈkaxo]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for zancajo 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 zancajo, spelled Z-A-N-C-A-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hueso del pie que forma el talón.
- 2Parte trasera del pie, donde sobresale el talón.
- 3Parte del zapato o media, que cubre el talón, especialmente si está rota.
- 4Zancarrón (hueso grande y alargado, despojado de carne).
- 5Persona de mala figura o demasiado pequeña.
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