cerilla
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#65,955
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cerilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Utensilio para encender fuego formado por un trozo de madera con un extremo o cabeza recubierto de una sustancia inflamable, originalmente fósforo1 y más tarde mezclas con azufre, que al frotarla c... Pronounced [seˈɾiʝa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seˈɾiʝa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cerilla is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seˈɾiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,955 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 misspelling variants are generated for cerilla in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 cerilla, spelled C-E-R-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Utensilio para encender fuego formado por un trozo de madera con un extremo o cabeza recubierto de una sustancia inflamable, originalmente fósforo1 y más tarde mezclas con azufre, que al frotarla contra una superficie rugosa produce una llama.
- 2Vela de cera, muy delgada y larga.
- 3Sustancia grasa segregada por los oídos.
- 4Masilla de cera compuesta con otros ingredientes, de que usaban las mujeres para afeites.
Frequency rank: #65,955 in Spanish
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