chorlitejo chico
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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chorlitejo chico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t͡ʃoɾliˈt̪exo ˈt͡ʃiko] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chorlitejo chico” sits in Spanish frequency
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(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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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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