quila
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5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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quila is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Chusquea quila) Gramínea bambusácea de los bosques templados de Chile y Argentina, de cañas curvas y ramificadas, de uno a ocho metros de altura. Tiene uso como leña, en artesanía, y como forraje ... Pronounced [ˈkila].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quila |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkila] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for quila is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkila]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for quila in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 quila, spelled Q-U-I-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Chusquea quila) Gramínea bambusácea de los bosques templados de Chile y Argentina, de cañas curvas y ramificadas, de uno a ocho metros de altura. Tiene uso como leña, en artesanía, y como forraje en tiempos de escasez. Su florecimiento y muerte, que ocurre aproximadamente cada 15 años, acarrea trastornos ecológicos, como las ratadas.
- 2El culmo (tallo) leñoso de la quila₁. Su interior es macizo y arde con gran facilidad. Se usa en cestería y mueblería.
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