carril
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,252
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carril is aSpanishnoun. It means: Marca en un camino, que van dejando las ruedas de los vehículos. Pronounced [kaˈril]. It ranks #9,252 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with carro and corrí.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carril |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈril] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carril is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈril]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,252 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for carril, with forms such as "acrril", "caril", and "carirl". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "carro", "corrí", "carry", 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 carril, spelled C-A-R-R-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marca en un camino, que van dejando las ruedas de los vehículos.
- 2Línea trazada por el arado en el campo.
- 3Vía estrecha.
- 4Cada una de las pistas de la calzada de una calle, que van separadas por trazos blancos discontinuos.
- 5Línea de barras metálicas por las que se desplaza el ferrocarril, tranvía u otro vehículo de este tipo.
- 6Ferrocarril.
- 7Ranura o surco que permite el desplazamiento de una ventana o puerta de corredera.
- 8Afirmación audaz y sin base, con apariencia de verdad.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrril,caril,carirl,carrill,carrli,ccarril,craril
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carril
Misspelling Variants of "carril"
Frequency rank: #9,252 in Spanish
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