palillo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,487
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
palillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento de madera, afilado por al menos uno de sus extremos, que es usado para eliminar restos de comida de entre los dientes. Pronounced [paˈliʝo]. Often confused with pillo and palito.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈliʝo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for palillo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈliʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,487 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 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 palillo, with forms such as "aplillo", "pailllo", and "palilo". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "pillo", "palito", "pasillo", 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 palillo, spelled P-A-L-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de madera, afilado por al menos uno de sus extremos, que es usado para eliminar restos de comida de entre los dientes.
- 2Utensilio oriental de madera que, usado en par, se usa como cubierto.
- 3Diminutivo de palo.
- 4Instrumento de madera alargado que se usa para tocar instrumentos de percusión, como el tambor.
- 5Instrumento que se usa en pares para tejer.
- 6Persona muy delgada.
- 7Vena gruesa de las hojas del tabaco que puede quedar en el cigarro o cigarrillo.
- 8Castañuela.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aplillo,pailllo,palilo,palilol,pallillo,pallilo,plaillo,ppalillo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "palillo"
Frequency rank: #45,487 in Spanish
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