quilla
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,301
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
quilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Viga longitudinal ubicada en la parte del fondo de un barco, que es la base sobre la cual se construye toda su estructura. Pronounced [ˈkiʝa]. Often confused with quizá and quita.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkiʝa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for quilla is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,301 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for quilla, with forms such as "qiulla", "qquilla", and "quila". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "quizá", "quita", "quinta", 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 quilla, spelled Q-U-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Viga longitudinal ubicada en la parte del fondo de un barco, que es la base sobre la cual se construye toda su estructura.
- 2Parte, generalmente saliente, que se encuentra en la superficie posterior de una guitarra y que sirve para unir el mástil con la caja.
- 3Parte saliente y afilada del esternón de las aves, más desarrollada en las de vuelo vigoroso y sostenido.
- 4Parte saliente y afilada que se halla en las colas de algunos peces, como el marrajo.
- 5Hilera de puntos soltados en una media.
- 6En las flores papilionáceas, parte de la corola formada por los dos pétalos de abajo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qiulla,qquilla,quila,quilal,qulila,uqilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quilla
Misspelling Variants of "quilla"
Frequency rank: #33,301 in Spanish
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