cuchilla
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,976
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
cuchilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte plana de una herramienta o de un arma, normalmente de un filo o un extremo afilado y por lo general de metal como el acero, para cortar, apuñalar, rebanar, clavar lanzando a distancia, tajar ... Pronounced [kuˈt͡ʃiʝa]. Often confused with cuchillo and cuchillos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuchilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kuˈt͡ʃiʝa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuchilla is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kuˈt͡ʃiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,976 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuchilla, with forms such as "ccuchilla", "ccuhilla", and "cucchilla". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cuchillo", "cuchillos", "cuchillas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cuchilla, spelled C-U-C-H-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte plana de una herramienta o de un arma, normalmente de un filo o un extremo afilado y por lo general de metal como el acero, para cortar, apuñalar, rebanar, clavar lanzando a distancia, tajar o dar aire girando como en un ventilador.
- 2Instrumento con hoja ancha de metal, de un solo filo, con su mango para manejarlo.
- 3Hoja muy fina y afilada que, montada en una maquinilla o instrumento diseñado para el efecto, sirve para afeitar los vellos faciales o de otras partes del cuerpo humano.
- 4Elevación del terreno de alta pendiente con picos que se parecen a los de un arma punzante como la cuchilla₂.
- 5Eminencia prolongada de poca altura, que ondula suavemente hasta llanura.
- 6Cumbre o cima de montañas y sierras.
- 7Arma recta y alargada, con empuñadura, empleada por los caballeros de los siglos XV al XIX para defenderse, y hoy en el deporte de la esgrima.
- 8Profesor, cónyuge o jefe muy estrictos.
- 9Interruptor general de la energía eléctrica.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuchilla,ccuhilla,cucchilla,cuchhilla,cuchila,cuchilal,cuchlila,cucihlla,cuhcilla,ucchilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuchilla
Misspelling Variants of "cuchilla"
Frequency rank: #19,976 in Spanish
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