casquillo

/[kasˈkiʝo]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#54,060

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

casquillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Anillo o abrazadera de metal que sirve para reforzar la extremidad de una pieza de madera; como el cabo de una lanza, la punta del eje de un carro, la cabeza de un pilote o el mango de una herramie... Pronounced [kasˈkiʝo].

Key facts for casquillo
PropertyValue
Headwordcasquillo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kasˈkiʝo]
Letters9
Frequency rank#54,060
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of casquillo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for casquillo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kasˈkiʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,060 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for casquillo 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 casquillo, spelled C-A-S-Q-U-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Anillo o abrazadera de metal que sirve para reforzar la extremidad de una pieza de madera; como el cabo de una lanza, la punta del eje de un carro, la cabeza de un pilote o el mango de una herramienta.
  2. 2
    Hierro de la saeta o flecha. Llámase así por la figura de anillo que tiene para fijarse en la vara o asta de la saeta.
  3. 3
    Vaina metálica.
  4. 4
    Herradura.

Frequency rank: #54,060 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "casquillo"?
"casquillo" is spelled C-A-S-Q-U-I-L-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kasˈkiʝo].
What does "casquillo" mean?
As a noun, "casquillo" means: Anillo o abrazadera de metal que sirve para reforzar la extremidad de una pieza de madera; como el cabo de una lanza, la punta del eje de un carro, la cabeza de un pilote o el mango de una herramie...
How do you pronounce "casquillo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "casquillo" is [kasˈkiʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "casquillo" 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.