caramillo
[kaɾaˈmiʝo]
The verdict
“caramillo” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pequeño instrumento musical de viento y sonido muy agudo (flauta pequeña), generalmente elaborado de caña, madera o hueso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caramillo · caramillo · Spanish
caramillo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caramillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾaˈmiʝo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “caramillo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
caramillo is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaɾaˈmiʝo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for caramillo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is caramillo, spelled C-A-R-A-M-I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Pequeño instrumento musical de viento y sonido muy agudo (flauta pequeña), generalmente elaborado de caña, madera o hueso.
- 2Instrumento musical de viento consistente en una serie de flautas o pipas en hilera.
- 3Planta igual o similar a la barbilla (Salsola vermiculata), de tallo con vellos y leñoso, casi como de arbusto, y hojas agudas color verde claro.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.