candil
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#64,436
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
candil is aSpanishnoun. It means: Utensilio para alumbrar compuesto de dos vasos de hierro o de hoja de lata, cada cual con un pico y que encajan uno en otro; en el interior se ponen el aceite y la torcida o mecha, y el exterior ti... Pronounced [kãn̪ˈd̪il].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | candil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kãn̪ˈd̪il] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for candil is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kãn̪ˈd̪il]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,436 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for candil 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 candil, spelled C-A-N-D-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Utensilio para alumbrar compuesto de dos vasos de hierro o de hoja de lata, cada cual con un pico y que encajan uno en otro; en el interior se ponen el aceite y la torcida o mecha, y el exterior tiene una varilla con garfio para colgarlo.
- 2Lamparilla manual de barro cocido, usada antiguamente: su forma es como de taza cubierta, tiene un agujero encima para echar el aceite, y en su borde superior, por un lado la piquera o mechero y por el otro el asa.
- 3Punta alta de las cuernas de los venados.
- 4Pico del sombrero.
- 5Pico largo y desigual que suelen tener las sayas de las mujeres.
- 6Especie de candelabro sin pie y con varios brazos, que se cuelga del techo o de un pescante.
- 7Velón (lámpara de aceite).
- 8Instrumento para pescar, deslumbrando a los peces con teas encendidas.
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Frequency rank: #64,436 in Spanish
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