kʼiliʼ

//kʼi.liʔ// noun

The verdict

“kʼiliʼ” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
6
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Perico.

Key facts for kʼiliʼ
PropertyValue
Headwordkʼiliʼ
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/kʼi.liʔ/
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “kʼiliʼ” sits in Spanish frequency

kʼiliʼ falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for kʼiliʼ is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kʼi.liʔ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Perico.".

No misspelling variants are generated for kʼiliʼ 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 kʼiliʼ, spelled K-ʼ-I-L-I-ʼ, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Perico.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kʼiliʼ"?
"kʼiliʼ" is spelled K-ʼ-I-L-I-ʼ. The IPA pronunciation is /kʼi.liʔ/.
What does "kʼiliʼ" mean?
As a noun, "kʼiliʼ" means: Perico.
How do you pronounce "kʼiliʼ"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "kʼiliʼ" is /kʼi.liʔ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "kʼiliʼ" come from?
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Using “kʼiliʼ”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is K-ʼ-I-L-I-ʼ — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /kʼi.liʔ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.