fraile
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,375
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
fraile is aSpanishnoun. It means: Clérigo mendicante. Pronounced [ˈfɾajle]. Often confused with frase and frame.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fraile |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɾajle] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fraile is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɾajle]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,375 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for fraile, with forms such as "farile", "ffraile", and "fraiel". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "frase", "frame", "fraude", 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 fraile, spelled F-R-A-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Clérigo mendicante.
- 2Doblez en forma de capucha que queda en la costura inferior de algunas túnicas o vestidos similares.
- 3Calado triangular en la ventilación de una chimenea para ayudar a la salida del humo.
- 4Blanco en un texto impreso ocasionado por estar doblado o tapado el papel al colocarlo en el molde.
- 5Residuo del prensado de la caña de azúcar.
- 6Montón de uva pisada para extraer mosto.
- 7Montón de mies trillada pero aún no aventada.
- 8Piel que recubre el glande del pene.
- 9(Salaria fluviatilis) Pez perciforme, que habita aguas rápidas de la cuenca del Mediterráneo, de hasta 25 cm de largo, cuerpo elongado de color pardoverdoso con listas negras, desprovisto de escamas y muy viscoso.
- 10(Vanellus chilensis) Ave charadriforme, nativa de las llanuras de Sudamérica, de hasta 40 cm de altura, 400 g de peso, con el lomo y cabeza grises, garganta y frente negras y vientre blanco; habita los campos, en los que aprovecha los terrenos húmedos y recién arados para alimentarse. Su grito desapacible anuncia la lluvia.
- 11Número trece.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: farile,ffraile,fraiel,fraille,fralie,friale,frraile,rfaile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "fraile"
Frequency rank: #20,375 in Spanish
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