manecilla
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#94,339
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
manecilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Aguja que en algunos instrumentos de medición indica el valor. En particular las de los relojes, que indican la hora, minuto o segundo. Pronounced [maneˈsiʝa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manecilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maneˈsiʝa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for manecilla is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maneˈsiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #94,339 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for manecilla 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 manecilla, spelled M-A-N-E-C-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aguja que en algunos instrumentos de medición indica el valor. En particular las de los relojes, que indican la hora, minuto o segundo.
- 2Signo con forma de mano señalando con el índice extendido, que se usa para llamar la atención sobre algún elemento.
- 3Broche que se usa para cerrar los libros de devoción u otros objetos.
- 4Especie de tallitos volubles que tienen las plantas trepadoras para asirse a las superficies sobre las que crecen.
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Frequency rank: #94,339 in Spanish
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