zape
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#69,056
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
zape is anSpanishintj. It means: Voz para espantar animales, especialmente a los gatos, o para ahuyentar algún mal. Pronounced [ˈsape].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zape |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | [ˈsape] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for zape is 4 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsape]. Corpus data places it at rank #69,056 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for zape 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 zape, spelled Z-A-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Voz para espantar animales, especialmente a los gatos, o para ahuyentar algún mal.
- 2Voz para indicar sorpresa o temor ante un mal o precaución ante un riesgo.
- 3Voz para negar una carta, en ciertos juegos de naipes, que pide un compañero.
Frequency rank: #69,056 in Spanish
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