chorlito

/[t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#93,881

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chorlito is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Pluvialis) Ave del orden de las zancudas, de unos 25 centímetros de longitud, pico recto, largo y delgado, patas largas finas y plumaje de color variable según la especie. Sus especies se reproduc... Pronounced [t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o].

Key facts for chorlito
PropertyValue
Headwordchorlito
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o]
Letters8
Frequency rank#93,881
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chorlito in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for chorlito is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #93,881 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Pluvialis) Ave del orden de las zancudas, de unos 25 centímetros de longitud, pico recto, largo y delgado, patas largas finas y plumaje de color variable según la especie. Sus especies se reproduc...".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    (Pluvialis) Ave del orden de las zancudas, de unos 25 centímetros de longitud, pico recto, largo y delgado, patas largas finas y plumaje de color variable según la especie. Sus especies se reproducen en tundras del norte del Hemisferio norte próximas al Ártico, tanto en Europa y Asia como en el norte de América del Norte.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #93,881 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chorlito"?
"chorlito" is spelled C-H-O-R-L-I-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o].
What does "chorlito" mean?
As a noun, "chorlito" means: (Pluvialis) Ave del orden de las zancudas, de unos 25 centímetros de longitud, pico recto, largo y delgado, patas largas finas y plumaje de color variable según la especie. Sus especies se reproduc...
How do you pronounce "chorlito"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chorlito" is [t͡ʃoɾˈlit̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.