kiri

/[ˈkiɾi]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#74,665

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

kiri is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Paulownia tomentosa) Árbol frondoso de la familia Paulowniaceae. Son árboles que crecen muy rápido, llegando a los 20 m de altura con copa amplia y umbeliforme. La corteza es de color marrón-gris.... Pronounced [ˈkiɾi].

Key facts for kiri
PropertyValue
Headwordkiri
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkiɾi]
Letters4
Frequency rank#74,665
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of kiri in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for kiri is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkiɾi]. Corpus data places it at rank #74,665 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Paulownia tomentosa) Árbol frondoso de la familia Paulowniaceae. Son árboles que crecen muy rápido, llegando a los 20 m de altura con copa amplia y umbeliforme. La corteza es de color marrón-gris....".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    (Paulownia tomentosa) Árbol frondoso de la familia Paulowniaceae. Son árboles que crecen muy rápido, llegando a los 20 m de altura con copa amplia y umbeliforme. La corteza es de color marrón-gris. Las ramas tienen lenticelas amarilla-rojizas y son glandulo-viscosas cuando jóvenes. Las hojas tienen un limbo cordiforme de ápice agudo, de hasta 40 cm, con el envés densamente peludo o no. Sus peciolos son de tamaño prácticamente igual al de los limbos. La inflorescencias son piramidales o estrechamente cónicas y miden unos 50 cm. Es considerado como una de las posibles especies que puede llegar a salvar al planeta debido a su resistencia a plagas, su rápido crecimiento y adaptación, y su gran capacidad para producir oxígeno; sin embargo es sumamente invasor y ha desplazado a muchas especies nativas.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #74,665 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kiri"?
"kiri" is spelled K-I-R-I. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkiɾi].
What does "kiri" mean?
As a noun, "kiri" means: (Paulownia tomentosa) Árbol frondoso de la familia Paulowniaceae. Son árboles que crecen muy rápido, llegando a los 20 m de altura con copa amplia y umbeliforme. La corteza es de color marrón-gris....
How do you pronounce "kiri"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "kiri" is [ˈkiɾi]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "kiri" come from?
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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.