See impalpable on Wiktionary
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"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish epicene adjectives",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"impalpable"
],
"links": [
[
"impalpable",
"impalpable#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/impalˈpable/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ĩm.palˈpa.β̞le]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-able"
}
],
"word": "impalpable"
}
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