aquilino
[akiˈlino]
The verdict
“aquilino” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #72,508 among 120,137 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,508
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Propio del águila.
Corpus desk
Index ES-aquilino · aquilino · Spanish
aquilino · rank #72,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,508
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 120,137
- PHOTO-FINISH armour
Nearest frequency peer: armour (+2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “aquilino”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- aplaudidos
aplaudidos
27,497 corpus weight
- apoderando
apoderando
27,496 corpus weight
- aquilino
aquilino
27,493 corpus weight
- armour
armour
27,491 corpus weight
- arrastren
arrastren
27,490 corpus weight
- arrodillados
arrodillados
27,489 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “aquilino” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aquilino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [akiˈlino] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aquilino” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
aquilino is uncommon Spanish at frequency #72,508 among 120,137 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [akiˈlino]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aquilino, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is aquilino, spelled A-Q-U-I-L-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1Propio del águila.
- 2Dicho de un rostro: Largo y delgado.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aquilino appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Estas piedras se llaman del águila, o aquilinas, porque dicha águila las lleva a su nido para que defiendan a los pollicos, o huevos, de los animales ponzoñosos».
«(…) cuando de pronto, la Zapatera vio con asombro que una mano como una garra, una mano que además de oscura, y seca, y peluda, y precisamente por eso, daba miedo, aparecía en el quicio de la puerta y se apoderaba de la muñeca izquierda de Minucha, y la arrastraba hacia un destino ignoto; siguió a la mano el perfil aquilino de don Acisclo Azpilcueta, tam…
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aquilino", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.