cil
/sil/
The verdict
“cil” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,076 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,076
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pestaña.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cil · cil · Spanish
cil · rank #54,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,076
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH chiflados
Nearest frequency peer: chiflados (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cil”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Charge
Charge
45,929 corpus weight
- chichi
chichi
45,927 corpus weight
- chiflados
chiflados
45,926 corpus weight
- cil
cil
45,925 corpus weight
- cimiento
cimiento
45,924 corpus weight
- coartar
coartar
45,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cil” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sil/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cil” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cil is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,076 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sil/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pestaña.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cil in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cil, spelled C-I-L.
Definition
- 1Pestaña.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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