cabestrillo

/[kaβ̞esˈt̪ɾiʝo]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#98,178

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cabestrillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Banda o aparato pendiente del hombro para sostener e inmovilizar el brazo fracturado. Pronounced [kaβ̞esˈt̪ɾiʝo].

Key facts for cabestrillo
PropertyValue
Headwordcabestrillo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kaβ̞esˈt̪ɾiʝo]
Letters11
Frequency rank#98,178
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cabestrillo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cabestrillo is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaβ̞esˈt̪ɾiʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #98,178 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cabestrillo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 cabestrillo, spelled C-A-B-E-S-T-R-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Banda o aparato pendiente del hombro para sostener e inmovilizar el brazo fracturado.
  2. 2
    Cadena delgada de oro, plata o aljófar, que se traía al cuello por adorno.

Frequency rank: #98,178 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabestrillo"?
"cabestrillo" is spelled C-A-B-E-S-T-R-I-L-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kaβ̞esˈt̪ɾiʝo].
What does "cabestrillo" mean?
As a noun, "cabestrillo" means: Banda o aparato pendiente del hombro para sostener e inmovilizar el brazo fracturado.
How do you pronounce "cabestrillo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabestrillo" is [kaβ̞esˈt̪ɾiʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cabestrillo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.