quitanieves
[kit̪aˈnjeβ̞es]
The verdict
“quitanieves” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Implemento, vehículo o máquina para remover la nieve acumulada.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quitanieves · quitanieves · Spanish
quitanieves · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quitanieves |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kit̪aˈnjeβ̞es] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “quitanieves” en español
Rare enough to double-check
quitanieves is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kit̪aˈnjeβ̞es]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Implemento, vehículo o máquina para remover la nieve acumulada.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quitanieves, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is quitanieves, spelled Q-U-I-T-A-N-I-E-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Implemento, vehículo o máquina para remover la nieve acumulada.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.