orillo
Spanish, noun
orillo is spelled O-R-I-L-L-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish, the 148,939th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Orillo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “selvage/selvedge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of orillar. With an accent, orilló is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of orillar”.
What does orillo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineselvage/selvedge
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of orillar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of orillar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of orillo
- orillos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to orillo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is orillo in Spanish?
orillo appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).