cuchillo

/[kuˈt͡ʃiʝo]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,941

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

cuchillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Utensilio cortante formado por un mango y una hoja con filo, generalmente de metal. Pronounced [kuˈt͡ʃiʝo]. It ranks #5,941 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cursillo and cuchillos.

Key facts for cuchillo
PropertyValue
Headwordcuchillo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kuˈt͡ʃiʝo]
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,941
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cuchillo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kuˈt͡ʃiʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,941 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 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 cuchillo, with forms such as "ccuchillo", "ccuhillo", and "cucchillo". 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, "cursillo", "cuchillos", "cuchilla", 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 cuchillo, spelled C-U-C-H-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Utensilio cortante formado por un mango y una hoja con filo, generalmente de metal.
  2. 2
    Añadidura o remiendo, ordinariamente triangular, que se suele echar en los vestidos para darles más vuelo que el que permite lo ancho de la ropa, o para otros fines.
  3. 3
    Cada una de las dos piezas triangulares que a uno y otro lado de la media empalman la caña con el pie.
  4. 4
    Derecho o jurisdicción que uno tiene para gobernar, castigar y poner en ejecución las leyes.
  5. 5
    Cualquier cosa cortada o terminada en ángulo agudo; como una tabla cortada al sesgo, una habitación con paredes oblicuas, una pieza de tierra de figura triangular, etc.
  6. 6
    Conjunto de piezas de madera o hierro que, colocado verticalmente sobre apoyos, sostiene la cubierta de un edificio o el piso de un puente.
  7. 7
    Sala o habitación que tiene forma triangular en la distribución del edificio, sea por necesidades estructurales o por estilo.
  8. 8
    Cada una de las seis plumas del ala del halcón inmediatas a la principal, llamada tijera: la primera de aquellas se llama cuchillo maestro.
  9. 9
    Lugar en que se encuentran dos calles que son paralelas en otras zonas de la ciudad.
  10. 10
    (Gymnotus spp.) Pez iridiscente de agua dulce, común en Centro y Suramérica, capaz de emitir descargas eléctricas como los demás de la familia Gymnotidae (menos intensas que las del temblador o la anguila).

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccuchillo,ccuhillo,cucchillo,cuchhillo,cuchilo,cuchilol,cuchlilo,cucihllo,cuhcillo,ucchillo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuchillo

Misspelling Variants of "cuchillo"

ccuchillo9ccuhillo8cucchillo9cuchhillo9cuchilo7cuchilol8cuchlilo8cucihllo8
Misspelling Variants of "cuchillo"

Frequency rank: #5,941 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cuchillo"?
"cuchillo" is spelled C-U-C-H-I-L-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kuˈt͡ʃiʝo].
What does "cuchillo" mean?
As a noun, "cuchillo" means: Utensilio cortante formado por un mango y una hoja con filo, generalmente de metal.
What words are commonly confused with "cuchillo"?
"cuchillo" is commonly confused with "cursillo", "cuchillos", "cuchilla". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cuchillo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cuchillo" is [kuˈt͡ʃiʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cuchillo" come from?
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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.