centinela
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,675
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
centinela is aSpanishnoun. It means: Soldado que vela guardando el puesto que se le encarga. Pronounced [sẽn̪t̪iˈnela]. Often confused with centinelas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centinela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sẽn̪t̪iˈnela] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for centinela is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sẽn̪t̪iˈnela]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,675 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for centinela, with forms such as "ccentinela", "cenitnela", and "cenntinela". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "centinelas", 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 centinela, spelled C-E-N-T-I-N-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Soldado que vela guardando el puesto que se le encarga.
- 2En sentido figurado, persona que está en observación de alguna cosa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccentinela,cenitnela,cenntinela,centienla,centineal,centinella,centinlea,centinnela,centniela,centtinela,cetninela,cnetinela,ecntinela,sentinela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for centinela
Misspelling Variants of "centinela"
Frequency rank: #28,675 in Spanish
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