chinchilla
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,385
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chinchilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Familia Chinchillidae) Cualquiera de varias especies de mamíferos roedores histricomorfos, parientes de la vizcacha, de piel fina muy valorada en peletería, cuya caza excesiva los ha convertido en... Pronounced [t͡ʃĩnʲˈt͡ʃiʝa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chinchilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃĩnʲˈt͡ʃiʝa] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chinchilla is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃĩnʲˈt͡ʃiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,385 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 chinchilla, with forms such as "cchinchilla", "chhinchilla", and "chicnhilla". 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 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 chinchilla, spelled C-H-I-N-C-H-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Familia Chinchillidae) Cualquiera de varias especies de mamíferos roedores histricomorfos, parientes de la vizcacha, de piel fina muy valorada en peletería, cuya caza excesiva los ha convertido en animales raros. Mide unos 20 cm, con un peso de 750 g, aspecto grueso, cubierto por una larga y suave piel gris, con una extraordinaria concentración de pelo, la más alta conocida en un ser vivo. Pueden vivir 15 años. En estado silvestre viven en la zona andina de Sudamérica.
- 2(Chinchilla lanigera) Chinchilla chilena.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchinchilla,chhinchilla,chicnhilla,chincchilla,chinchhilla,chinchila,chinchilal,chinchlila,chincihlla,chinhcilla,chinnchilla,chnichilla,cihnchilla,hcinchilla
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Misspelling Variants of "chinchilla"
Frequency rank: #30,385 in Spanish
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