boquilla
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,385
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
boquilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza pequeña, hueca y en general cónica, de metal, marfil o madera, que se adapta al tubo de varios instrumentos de viento y sirve para producir el sonido, apoyando los labios en los bordes de ella. Pronounced [boˈkiʝa]. Often confused with Bonilla and bombilla.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boquilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [boˈkiʝa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for boquilla is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [boˈkiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,385 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for boquilla, with forms such as "bboquilla", "boqiulla", and "boqquilla". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Bonilla", "bombilla", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 boquilla, spelled B-O-Q-U-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza pequeña, hueca y en general cónica, de metal, marfil o madera, que se adapta al tubo de varios instrumentos de viento y sirve para producir el sonido, apoyando los labios en los bordes de ella.
- 2Tubo pequeño, de diversas formas, en cuya parte más ancha se pone el cigarro para fumarlo aspirando el humo por el extremo opuesto.
- 3Parte del cigarrillo por la cual se aspira el humo, compuesta de un relleno esponjoso que actúa de filtro.
- 4Abertura inferior del calzón, por donde sale la pierna.
- 5Cortadura o abertura que se hace en las acequias a fin de extraer las aguas para el riego.
- 6Escopleadura que el carpintero abre en los largueros, peinazos, etc., para enlazarlos unos con otros.
- 7Tercera abrazadera del fusil.
- 8Orificio cilíndrico por donde se introduce la pólvora en las bombas y granadas, y en donde se asegura la espoleta.
- 9Pieza de metal que guarnece la boca o entrada de la vaina de un arma blanca.
- 10Pieza donde se produce la llama en los aparatos de alumbrado.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bboquilla,boqiulla,boqquilla,boquila,boquilal,boqulila,bouqilla,bqouilla,obquilla,voquilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for boquilla
Misspelling Variants of "boquilla"
Frequency rank: #35,385 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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