cabilla

/[kaˈβ̞iʝa]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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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].

Key facts for cabilla
PropertyValue
Headwordcabilla
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kaˈβ̞iʝa]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    En ferrocarriles, clavija de madera que, con preferencia a los clavos de hierro, se emplea para sujetar los cojinetes a las traviesas.
  2. 2
    Barra 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.
  3. 3
    Cada 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.
  4. 4
    Estaquilla 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabilla"?
"cabilla" is spelled C-A-B-I-L-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kaˈβ̞iʝa].
What does "cabilla" mean?
As a noun, "cabilla" means: En ferrocarriles, clavija de madera que, con preferencia a los clavos de hierro, se emplea para sujetar los cojinetes a las traviesas.
How do you pronounce "cabilla"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabilla" is [kaˈβ̞iʝa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cabilla" 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.