grillete
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#84,923
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
grillete is aSpanishnoun. It means: Aro de hierro que sirve para fijar una cadena en el pie de un prisionero. Pronounced [gɾiˈʝet̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grillete |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gɾiˈʝet̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for grillete is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gɾiˈʝet̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #84,923 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for grillete in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 grillete, spelled G-R-I-L-L-E-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aro de hierro que sirve para fijar una cadena en el pie de un prisionero.
- 2Cada una de las porciones de cadena que engrilletadas forman la del ancla de un barco.
Frequency rank: #84,923 in Spanish
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