cabilla
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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cabilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: En ferrocarriles, clavija de madera que, con preferencia a los clavos de hierro, se emplea para sujetar los cojinetes a las traviesas. Pronounced [kaˈβ̞iʝa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈβ̞iʝa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for cabilla is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈβ̞iʝa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cabilla 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 cabilla, spelled C-A-B-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En ferrocarriles, clavija de madera que, con preferencia a los clavos de hierro, se emplea para sujetar los cojinetes a las traviesas.
- 2Barra redonda o cuadrada de hierro, o estaca de madera, con la que se clavan las curvas y otros maderos que entran en la construcción de los buques.
- 3Cada una de las barras redondas y comúnmente torneadas, de madera o metálicas que, colocadas en un cabillero sirven para tomar vuelta y amarrar los cabos de maniobra.
- 4Estaquilla torneada, llamada también manigueta, que en prolongación de cada radio de la rueda del timón, sale al exterior de la cercha sirviendo para apoyar la mano al timonel y hacer funcionar el gobernalle.
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