cillero
[siˈʝeɾo]
The verdict
“cillero” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hombre que tenía a su cargo la cilla pública, administrador y encargado de guardar los diezmos de los granos en la cilla y dar cuenta de ellos y hacer el reparto correspondiente. (castellano tradic...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cillero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈʝeɾo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cillero” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cillero is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [siˈʝeɾo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cillero, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct Spanish form is cillero, spelled C-I-L-L-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1Hombre que tenía a su cargo la cilla pública, administrador y encargado de guardar los diezmos de los granos en la cilla y dar cuenta de ellos y hacer el reparto correspondiente. (castellano tradicional).
- 2Despensa, bodega en castellano tradicional.
- 3Cajón ubicado en la parte delantera de un carro, donde se meten aperos y otros utensilios.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cillero”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-I-L-L-E-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [siˈʝeɾo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.