lilo

/[ˈlilo]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#53,028

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

lilo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Arbusto de la familia de las oleáceas, de tres a cuatro metros de altura, muy ramoso, con hojas pecioladas, enteras, acorazonadas, puntiagudas, blandas y nerviosas, flores de color morado claro, sa... Pronounced [ˈlilo].

Key facts for lilo
PropertyValue
Headwordlilo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈlilo]
Letters4
Frequency rank#53,028
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for lilo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlilo]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,028 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Arbusto de la familia de las oleáceas, de tres a cuatro metros de altura, muy ramoso, con hojas pecioladas, enteras, acorazonadas, puntiagudas, blandas y nerviosas, flores de color morado claro, salvo en la variedad que las tiene blancas, olorosas, pequeñas, de corola tubular partida en cuatro lóbulos iguales y en grandes ramilletes erguidos y cónicos, y fruto capsular, comprimido, negro, coriáceo, con dos semillas. Es planta originaria de Persia y muy cultivada en los jardines por la belleza de sus flores.
  2. 2
    Hombre afeminado

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #53,028 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lilo"?
"lilo" is spelled L-I-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈlilo].
What does "lilo" mean?
As a noun, "lilo" means: Arbusto de la familia de las oleáceas, de tres a cuatro metros de altura, muy ramoso, con hojas pecioladas, enteras, acorazonadas, puntiagudas, blandas y nerviosas, flores de color morado claro, sa...
How do you pronounce "lilo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lilo" is [ˈlilo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lilo" 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.