quillango
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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quillango is aSpanishnoun. It means: Prenda de piel de guanaco u otros animales que los indígenas de la Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego, principalmente tehuelches y ona, utilizaban como principal vestimenta. Se confeccionaba con varias p... Pronounced [kiˈʝãŋgo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quillango |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kiˈʝãŋgo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for quillango is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kiˈʝãŋgo]. 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 quillango 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 quillango, spelled Q-U-I-L-L-A-N-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prenda de piel de guanaco u otros animales que los indígenas de la Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego, principalmente tehuelches y ona, utilizaban como principal vestimenta. Se confeccionaba con varias pieles cosidas que conservaban el pelo y que podían ser pintadas por el otro lado.
- 2Por extensión, piezas semejantes a quillangos₁ que se confeccionaban en Argentina y Chile para ser usadas como alfombra o cobertor.
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