colilla
[koˈliʝa]
The verdict
“colilla” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,643 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,643
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porción del cigarrillo que queda al terminar de fumarlo, y que se apaga en un cenicero o se arroja.
Corpus desk
Index ES-colilla · colilla · Spanish
colilla · rank #60,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,643
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cojeando
Nearest frequency peer: cojeando (-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 “colilla”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cock
cock
39,361 corpus weight
- codiciada
codiciada
39,360 corpus weight
- cojeando
cojeando
39,359 corpus weight
- colilla
colilla
39,358 corpus weight
- colocaría
colocaría
39,356 corpus weight
- coloreadas
coloreadas
39,355 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “colilla” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈliʝa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “colilla” en español
Rare enough to double-check
colilla is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,643 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [koˈliʝa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Porción del cigarrillo que queda al terminar de fumarlo, y que se apaga en un cenicero o se arroja.".
colilla has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is colilla, spelled C-O-L-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Porción del cigarrillo que queda al terminar de fumarlo, y que se apaga en un cenicero o se arroja.
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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