grillos
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,496
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
grillos is aSpanishnoun. It means: Par de anillos de hierro que se ponen en los tobillos de alguien para impedir su libre movimiento al andar. Se han empleado para presidiarios, esclavos, etc. Pronounced [ˈgɾiʝos]. Often confused with gritos and gringos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grillos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgɾiʝos] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for grillos is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgɾiʝos]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,496 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for grillos, with forms such as "ggrillos", "girllos", and "grilloss". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "gritos", "gringos", "gallos", 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 grillos, spelled G-R-I-L-L-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Par de anillos de hierro que se ponen en los tobillos de alguien para impedir su libre movimiento al andar. Se han empleado para presidiarios, esclavos, etc.
- 2Por extensión, lo que dificulta o impide moverse, avanzar, progresar o tener libertad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggrillos,girllos,grilloss,grillso,grilols,grilos,grlilos,grrillos,rgillos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grillos
Misspelling Variants of "grillos"
Frequency rank: #30,496 in Spanish
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