cepillo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,042
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
cepillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Utensilio consistente en un mango y una base, sobre la cual se fijan cerdas u otros elementos flexibles aptos para el cepillado. Existen diversos tipos, diferenciados por los materiales y por el us... Pronounced [seˈpiʝo]. Often confused with cepillos and capilla.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cepillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seˈpiʝo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cepillo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seˈpiʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,042 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cepillo, with forms such as "ccepillo", "ceipllo", and "cepilo". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cepillos", "capilla", "capullo", 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 cepillo, spelled C-E-P-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Utensilio consistente en un mango y una base, sobre la cual se fijan cerdas u otros elementos flexibles aptos para el cepillado. Existen diversos tipos, diferenciados por los materiales y por el uso al que están destinados.
- 2Máquina o herramienta capaz de desgastar piezas metálicas o de madera, a efectos de uniformizar el espesor y lograr la forma que se desea.
- 3(Callistemon) Limpiatubos.
- 4Llana (herramienta para acomodar el yeso).
- 5Bigote grueso y lacio.
- 6Cepo (caja para guardar las limosnas).
- 7Halago, adulación.
- 8Escarabajo (vehículo).
- 9Cárcel.
- 10Instrumento usado para medir el grosor de los puros.
- 11Portalámpara.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccepillo,ceipllo,cepilo,cepilol,ceplilo,ceppillo,cpeillo,ecpillo,sepillo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cepillo"
Frequency rank: #15,042 in Spanish
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