polilla
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,810
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
polilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mariposa nocturna de un centímetro de largo, cenicienta, con una mancha negra en las alas, que son horizontales y estrechas, cabeza amarillenta y antenas casi verticales. Su larva, de unos dos milí... Pronounced [poˈliʝa]. Often confused with polla and póliza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [poˈliʝa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for polilla is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poˈliʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,810 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 polilla, with forms such as "oplilla", "ploilla", and "poillla". 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, "polla", "póliza", "polillas", 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 polilla, spelled P-O-L-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mariposa nocturna de un centímetro de largo, cenicienta, con una mancha negra en las alas, que son horizontales y estrechas, cabeza amarillenta y antenas casi verticales. Su larva, de unos dos milímetros de longitud, se alimenta de borra y hace una especie de capullo, destruyendo para ello la materia en donde anida, que suele ser de lana, tejidos, pieles, papel, etc.
- 2Larva de este insecto.
- 3Lo que menoscaba o destruye insensiblemente una cosa.
- 4Persona que dedica mucho tiempo al estudio.
- 5Persona que ha leído mucho.
- 6Prostituta.
- 7Carnaza (que resulta desagradable a causa de su insistencia).
- 8Persona que busca figurar en los medios de comunicación solo para ganar fama.
- 9Delincuente y mafioso menor de edad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oplilla,ploilla,poillla,polila,polilal,pollila,pollilla,ppolilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for polilla
Misspelling Variants of "polilla"
Frequency rank: #32,810 in Spanish
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