molino
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,842
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
molino is aSpanishnoun. It means: Utensilio, máquina o instalación destinanda a moler. Pronounced [moˈlino]. It ranks #8,842 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with moño and movió.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | molino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [moˈlino] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for molino is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [moˈlino]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,842 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for molino, with forms such as "mloino", "mmolino", and "moilno". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "moño", "movió", "motín", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 molino, spelled M-O-L-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Utensilio, máquina o instalación destinanda a moler.
- 2En particular, aquel, destinado a moler principalmente grano, que consta de una rueda, movida por la fuerza del agua o del viento, mediante distintos engranajes mueve una piedra o muela sobre otra que permanece fija, depositándose el grano entre medias de ellas.
- 3Edificio que alberga la instalación anterior.
- 4Combinación que permite ganar material con la torre y el alfil mediante una secuencia de consecutivos jaques a la descubierta, manteniendo al rey del rival encerrado en un rincón del tablero.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mloino,mmolino,moilno,molinno,molion,mollino,molnio,omlino
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "molino"
Frequency rank: #8,842 in Spanish
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