zapallito
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
zapallito is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Cucurbita maxima var. zapallito) Planta que produce un fruto comestible de forma similar al zapallo, pero más pequeño y esférico, de color verde y del tamaño de un puño, nativa de Argentina y Urug... Pronounced [sapaˈʝit̪o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zapallito |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sapaˈʝit̪o] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for zapallito is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sapaˈʝit̪o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for zapallito 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 zapallito, spelled Z-A-P-A-L-L-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Cucurbita maxima var. zapallito) Planta que produce un fruto comestible de forma similar al zapallo, pero más pequeño y esférico, de color verde y del tamaño de un puño, nativa de Argentina y Uruguay.
- 2Fruto del zapallito.
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