enfilada
[ẽɱfiˈlað̞a]
The verdict
“enfilada” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de enfilar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-enfilada · enfilada · Spanish
enfilada · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfilada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽɱfiˈlað̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “enfilada” en español
Rare enough to double-check
enfilada is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ẽɱfiˈlað̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
enfilada has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is enfilada, spelled E-N-F-I-L-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de enfilar.
- 2Ataque en fila o en diagonal a dos piezas enemigas, con la pieza de mayor valor adelante tal que se obliga al rival a tener que mover esta pieza para luego capturar la de menor valor.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.