chilenito
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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chilenito is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pequeño pastelillo de 5 cm de diámetro, formado por dos hojas hechas de harina, polvos de hornear, leche, mantequilla, yemas y aguardiente, unidas entre sí por un relleno de manjar (dulce de leche). Pronounced [t͡ʃileˈnit̪o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chilenito |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃileˈnit̪o] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for chilenito is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃileˈnit̪o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chilenito 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 chilenito, spelled C-H-I-L-E-N-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pequeño pastelillo de 5 cm de diámetro, formado por dos hojas hechas de harina, polvos de hornear, leche, mantequilla, yemas y aguardiente, unidas entre sí por un relleno de manjar (dulce de leche).
- 2Alimentos Sándwich formado por tiras de carne de vacuno, tomate picado y diversos aderezos dentro de un pan de hot dog.
- 3Chileno pequeño.
- 4Chileno.
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