rayuela

Spanish

Etymology

From raya (“line”) +‎ -uela (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /raˈʝwela/ [raˈʝwe.la]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /raˈʝwela/ [raˈʝwe.la]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /raˈʃwela/ [raˈʃwe.la]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /raˈʒwela/ [raˈʒwe.la]

• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: ra‧yue‧la

Noun

rayuela f (plural rayuelas)

1. (playground games) hopscotch (a children's game)

   Synonyms: (Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Venezuela) avión, (El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico) peregrina

Further reading

• “rayuela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• rayuela (juego) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es