capilla
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,927
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
capilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Edificio contiguo a una iglesia, o parte integrante de ella, con altar y advocación particular. Pronounced [kaˈpiʝa]. It ranks #5,927 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with capita and casilla.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈpiʝa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for capilla is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈpiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,927 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for capilla, with forms such as "acpilla", "caiplla", and "capila". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "capita", "casilla", "cápsula", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 capilla, spelled C-A-P-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Edificio contiguo a una iglesia, o parte integrante de ella, con altar y advocación particular.
- 2Capucha sujeta al cuello de las capas, gabanes o hábitos.
- 3Cuerpo o comunidad de capellanes, ministros y dependientes de ella.
- 4Cuerpo de músicos asalariados de alguna iglesia.
- 5En los colegios, junta o cabildo que hacen los colegiales para tratar de los negocios de su comunidad.
- 6Oratorio portátil de los regimientos y otros cuerpos militares.
- 7Oratorio₂.
- 8Capullo o vaina en que se cría la semilla de algunas hierbas.
- 9Religioso regular, a diferencia del clérigo secular.
- 10Maestro de capilla.
- 11Pliego que se entrega suelto durante la impresión de una obra.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpilla,caiplla,capila,capilal,caplila,cappilla,ccapilla,cpailla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for capilla
Misspelling Variants of "capilla"
Frequency rank: #5,927 in Spanish
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