krill
[ˈkɾil]
The verdict
“krill” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,183 among 3,662 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,183
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,662
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Orden Euphausiacea) Cualquiera de un centenar de especies de crustáceos pequeños, panoceánicos, que se alimentan de fito y zooplancton; flotan en el océano en cantidades enormes, formando una giga...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | krill |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɾil] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “krill” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
krill is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,183 among 3,662 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɾil]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Orden Euphausiacea) Cualquiera de un centenar de especies de crustáceos pequeños, panoceánicos, que se alimentan de fito y zooplancton; flotan en el océano en cantidades enormes, formando una giga...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for krill in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is krill, spelled K-R-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1(Orden Euphausiacea) Cualquiera de un centenar de especies de crustáceos pequeños, panoceánicos, que se alimentan de fito y zooplancton; flotan en el océano en cantidades enormes, formando una gigantesca reserva de biomasa que es el alimento principal de numerosas especies marinas entre las que se encuentran, peces, pinguinos y ballenas. Son criaturas similares a minúsculos langostinos —de los que se distinguen por poseer agallas visibles—, con cuerpo dividido en tres segmentos, múltiples pares de patas, antenas táctiles y una cubierta quitinosa transparente. Son bioluminiscentes.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “krill”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is K-R-I-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkɾil] (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.