cosquillas
[kosˈkiʝas]
The verdict
“cosquillas” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #19,678 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #19,678
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sensación placentera —si es breve—, percibida en algunas áreas del cuerpo mediante tocamientos ligeros. Paradójicamente, consiste en una conmoción desagradable que suele provocar risa involuntaria....
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cosquillas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kosˈkiʝas] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cosquillas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cosquillas is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kosˈkiʝas]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,678 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cosquillas, with forms such as "ccosquillas", "coqsuillas", and "cosqiullas". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "costillas", "cosquilleo", "casquillos", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cosquillas, spelled C-O-S-Q-U-I-L-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Sensación placentera —si es breve—, percibida en algunas áreas del cuerpo mediante tocamientos ligeros. Paradójicamente, consiste en una conmoción desagradable que suele provocar risa involuntaria. Aplicada en exceso se convierte en tortura.
- 2Desavenencia, inquietud, rencilla.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccosquillas,coqsuillas,cosqiullas,cosqquillas,cosquilals,cosquilas,cosquillass,cosquillsa,cosqulilas,cossquillas,cosuqillas,csoquillas,ocsquillas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cosquillas - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “cosquillas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-S-Q-U-I-L-L-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kosˈkiʝas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “costillas” - see the side-by-side comparison. cosquillas vs costillas
- 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.