cuchillo
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuchillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kuˈt͡ʃiʝo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Utensilio cortante formado por un mango y una hoja con filo, generalmente de metal.
- 2Añadidura 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.
- 3Cada una de las dos piezas triangulares que a uno y otro lado de la media empalman la caña con el pie.
- 4Derecho o jurisdicción que uno tiene para gobernar, castigar y poner en ejecución las leyes.
- 5Cualquier 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.
- 6Conjunto de piezas de madera o hierro que, colocado verticalmente sobre apoyos, sostiene la cubierta de un edificio o el piso de un puente.
- 7Sala o habitación que tiene forma triangular en la distribución del edificio, sea por necesidades estructurales o por estilo.
- 8Cada una de las seis plumas del ala del halcón inmediatas a la principal, llamada tijera: la primera de aquellas se llama cuchillo maestro.
- 9Lugar en que se encuentran dos calles que son paralelas en otras zonas de la ciudad.
- 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"
Frequency rank: #5,941 in Spanish
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