chilena
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,404
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
chilena is aSpanishnoun. It means: Jugada acrobática del fútbol que consiste en chutar el balón durante un salto, golpeándolo con una pierna elevada sobre el resto del cuerpo, que a su vez está en el aire. Pronounced [t͡ʃiˈlena]. It ranks #4,404 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with China and chiles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chilena |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃiˈlena] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chilena is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃiˈlena]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,404 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for chilena, with forms such as "cchilena", "chhilena", and "chielna". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "China", "chiles", "chileno", 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 chilena, spelled C-H-I-L-E-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jugada acrobática del fútbol que consiste en chutar el balón durante un salto, golpeándolo con una pierna elevada sobre el resto del cuerpo, que a su vez está en el aire.
- 2Género musical de los estados de Guerrero y Oaxaca en México, que tiene sus raíces en la cueca chilena y en las tradiciones musicales de la Costa Chica mexicana.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchilena,chhilena,chielna,chilean,chilenna,chillena,chilnea,chliena,cihlena,hcilena
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chilena
Misspelling Variants of "chilena"
Frequency rank: #4,404 in Spanish
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