cucharilla

/[kut͡ʃaˈɾiʝa]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#79,944

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cucharilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Diminutivo de cuchara. Pronounced [kut͡ʃaˈɾiʝa].

Key facts for cucharilla
PropertyValue
Headwordcucharilla
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kut͡ʃaˈɾiʝa]
Letters10
Frequency rank#79,944
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cucharilla is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kut͡ʃaˈɾiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #79,944 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cucharilla in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 cucharilla, spelled C-U-C-H-A-R-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Diminutivo de cuchara.
  2. 2
    Por metonimia, cantidad que cabe en una cucharilla₁.
  3. 3
    Vara metálica con una pestaña en el extremo, empleada para remover los residuos de una perforación o recipiente.
  4. 4
    Señuelo de varios anzuelos dotado de una placa brillante o colorida para atraer a los peces.
  5. 5
    Cierta enfermedad hepática del ganado^([definición imprecisa]).
  6. 6
    Pieza de forma que recuerda a una cucharilla₁ dotada de un conducto que, montada en la cabeza de una biela, distribuye el lubricante a los cojinetes en el sistema de engrase por barboteo.
  7. 7
    Forma de denominar el utensilio llamado cuchara, independientemente de su tamaño.

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Frequency rank: #79,944 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cucharilla"?
"cucharilla" is spelled C-U-C-H-A-R-I-L-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kut͡ʃaˈɾiʝa].
What does "cucharilla" mean?
As a noun, "cucharilla" means: Diminutivo de cuchara.
How do you pronounce "cucharilla"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cucharilla" is [kut͡ʃaˈɾiʝa]. 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.