hisopillo

/[isoˈpiʝo]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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hisopillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Paño o trapo que se empapa de líquido para aplicarlo a la boca de los enfermos, entre otros usos. Pronounced [isoˈpiʝo].

Key facts for hisopillo
PropertyValue
Headwordhisopillo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[isoˈpiʝo]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hisopillo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for hisopillo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [isoˈpiʝo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hisopillo 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 hisopillo, spelled H-I-S-O-P-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Paño o trapo que se empapa de líquido para aplicarlo a la boca de los enfermos, entre otros usos.
  2. 2
    (Sideritis hyssopifolia) Planta de la familia de las lamiáceas o labiadas que crece en pastizales de alta montaña, extendida por España e Italia, de tallo leñoso que alcanza unos 40 cm de altura, pequeñas flores amarillas en forma de espiga de agradable fragancia, y de uso medicinal o digestivo en infusión y ornamental para tinturas y ramilletes aromáticos.
  3. 3
    (Satureja spp.) Nombre común aplicado a varias especies del género Satureja y de la familia las lamiáceas, hierbas y arbustos de entre 30 y 50 cm de altura que tienen uso ornamental, medicinal y culinario, con hojas alargadas y pequeñas flores de tonos desde blanco hasta violáceo, siendo las más comunes: Satureja hortensis y Satureja montana.
  4. 4
    Diminutivo de hisopo.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hisopillo"?
"hisopillo" is spelled H-I-S-O-P-I-L-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [isoˈpiʝo].
What does "hisopillo" mean?
As a noun, "hisopillo" means: Paño o trapo que se empapa de líquido para aplicarlo a la boca de los enfermos, entre otros usos.
How do you pronounce "hisopillo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hisopillo" is [isoˈpiʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hisopillo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.