cabeza de chorlito

/[kaˈβ̞esa ð̞e t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cabeza de chorlito is aSpanishphrase. It means: Tonto. Pronounced [kaˈβ̞esa ð̞e t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o].

Key facts for cabeza de chorlito
PropertyValue
Headwordcabeza de chorlito
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[kaˈβ̞esa ð̞e t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cabeza de chorlito is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cabeza de chorlito is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈβ̞esa ð̞e t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tonto.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cabeza de chorlito in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 cabeza de chorlito, spelled C-A-B-E-Z-A- -D-E- -C-H-O-R-L-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tonto.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabeza de chorlito"?
"cabeza de chorlito" is spelled C-A-B-E-Z-A- -D-E- -C-H-O-R-L-I-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kaˈβ̞esa ð̞e t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o].
What does "cabeza de chorlito" mean?
As a phrase, "cabeza de chorlito" means: Tonto.
How do you pronounce "cabeza de chorlito"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabeza de chorlito" is [kaˈβ̞esa ð̞e t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cabeza de chorlito" come from?
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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.