guillotina
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,373
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
guillotina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Máquina que consta de una cuchilla ancha y pesada que cae deslizándose entre dos guías, empleada para decapitar a los condenados a muerte. Pronounced [giʝoˈt̪ina].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guillotina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [giʝoˈt̪ina] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guillotina is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [giʝoˈt̪ina]. Corpus data places it at rank #31,373 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for guillotina, with forms such as "gguillotina", "giullotina", and "guilloitna". 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 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 guillotina, spelled G-U-I-L-L-O-T-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Máquina que consta de una cuchilla ancha y pesada que cae deslizándose entre dos guías, empleada para decapitar a los condenados a muerte.
- 2Cizalla (máquina similar a la guillotina usada para cortar chapa o cartón).
- 3Táctica usada para evitar el obstruccionismo, limitando las intervenciones o el plazo de la discusión.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gguillotina,giullotina,guilloitna,guillotian,guillotinna,guillotnia,guillottina,guilltoina,guiloltina,guilotina,gulilotina,ugillotina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guillotina
Misspelling Variants of "guillotina"
Frequency rank: #31,373 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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