cucharilla
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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cucharilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kut͡ʃaˈɾiʝa] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Diminutivo de cuchara.
- 2Por metonimia, cantidad que cabe en una cucharilla₁.
- 3Vara metálica con una pestaña en el extremo, empleada para remover los residuos de una perforación o recipiente.
- 4Señuelo de varios anzuelos dotado de una placa brillante o colorida para atraer a los peces.
- 5Cierta enfermedad hepática del ganado^([definición imprecisa]).
- 6Pieza 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.
- 7Forma de denominar el utensilio llamado cuchara, independientemente de su tamaño.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #79,944 in Spanish
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