chorlitejo chico

/[t͡ʃoɾliˈt̪exo ˈt͡ʃiko]/ phrase

The verdict

“chorlitejo chico” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Charadrius dubius) Ave pequeña con el pico corto y las patas largas, que en verano vive y anida principalmente en meandros y recodos de ríos con abundancia de cantos rodados y en invierno migra ha...

Key facts for chorlitejo chico
PropertyValue
Headwordchorlitejo chico
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[t͡ʃoɾliˈt̪exo ˈt͡ʃiko]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “chorlitejo chico” sits in Spanish frequency

chorlitejo chico falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for chorlitejo chico is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃoɾliˈt̪exo ˈt͡ʃiko]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Charadrius dubius) Ave pequeña con el pico corto y las patas largas, que en verano vive y anida principalmente en meandros y recodos de ríos con abundancia de cantos rodados y en invierno migra ha...".

No misspelling variants are generated for chorlitejo chico 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 chorlitejo chico, spelled C-H-O-R-L-I-T-E-J-O- -C-H-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Charadrius dubius) Ave pequeña con el pico corto y las patas largas, que en verano vive y anida principalmente en meandros y recodos de ríos con abundancia de cantos rodados y en invierno migra hacia las costas.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chorlitejo chico"?
"chorlitejo chico" is spelled C-H-O-R-L-I-T-E-J-O- -C-H-I-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is [t͡ʃoɾliˈt̪exo ˈt͡ʃiko].
What does "chorlitejo chico" mean?
As a phrase, "chorlitejo chico" means: (Charadrius dubius) Ave pequeña con el pico corto y las patas largas, que en verano vive y anida principalmente en meandros y recodos de ríos con abundancia de cantos rodados y en invierno migra ha...
How do you pronounce "chorlitejo chico"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chorlitejo chico" is [t͡ʃoɾliˈt̪exo ˈt͡ʃiko]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chorlitejo chico" come from?
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Using “chorlitejo chico”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is C-H-O-R-L-I-T-E-J-O- -C-H-I-C-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [t͡ʃoɾliˈt̪exo ˈt͡ʃiko] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.