jilguero
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#73,775
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
jilguero is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Carduelis carduelis) Pájaro pequeño de cabeza blanca, roja y negra, lomo pardo, vientre blanco, cola negra y alas negras con una franja central amarilla que se alimenta de insectos y semillas, en ... Pronounced [xilˈɣ̞eɾo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jilguero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [xilˈɣ̞eɾo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jilguero is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xilˈɣ̞eɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #73,775 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for jilguero in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 jilguero, spelled J-I-L-G-U-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Carduelis carduelis) Pájaro pequeño de cabeza blanca, roja y negra, lomo pardo, vientre blanco, cola negra y alas negras con una franja central amarilla que se alimenta de insectos y semillas, en especial de las de cardo. Es de canto melodioso y muy apreciado como mascota.
- 2(Carduelis tristis)
- 3(Carduelis barbatus) Ave silvestre chilena de hermoso canto que suele ser cruzada con canarios, para su venta en pajarerías. :*Ámbito: Chile.
- 4Nombre general que se aplica a gran parte de las aves americanas del género Carduelis y de otros géneros afines, como por ejemplo al Carduelis notata (jilguero encapuchado) o al Sicalis flaveola (jilguero argentino o jilguero dorado).
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Frequency rank: #73,775 in Spanish
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