quesillo
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#90,266
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
quesillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tipo de queso fresco, blanco y suave, con presentaciones variables en diferentes zonas de Hispanoamérica. En varios sitios se presenta tradicionalmente de manera artesanal envuelto en hojas de plát... Pronounced [keˈsiʝo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quesillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [keˈsiʝo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quesillo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [keˈsiʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,266 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 quesillo 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 quesillo, spelled Q-U-E-S-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tipo de queso fresco, blanco y suave, con presentaciones variables en diferentes zonas de Hispanoamérica. En varios sitios se presenta tradicionalmente de manera artesanal envuelto en hojas de plátano.
- 2Por extensión, postre consistente en quesillo₁ bañado con diferentes tipos de miel (de caña, de abejas, etc.)^([cita requerida])
- 3Postre de consistencia y sabor similares al flan, preparado con huevos, leche y leche condensada.
- 4Diminutivo de queso.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #90,266 in Spanish
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