silla
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,082
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
silla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mueble para sentarse que tiene respaldo. Pronounced [ˈsiʝa]. It ranks #3,082 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Sola and sima.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | silla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsiʝa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for silla is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,082 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for silla, with forms such as "cilla", "silal", and "slila". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sola", "sima", "sita", 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 silla, spelled S-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mueble para sentarse que tiene respaldo.
- 2Pieza fabricada de madera, cuero y otros materiales utilizada para montar a caballo.
- 3Asiento que se emplea para transportar a un niño.
- 4Trono o lugar donde se sienta un prelado que tiene autoridad sobre cierta jurisdicción, como un obispo, un abad, etc.
- 5Dignidad o cargo de alta autoridad en la Iglesia, especialmente la del Papa y de los cardenales.
- 6Orificio por el que el cuerpo de muchos animales expulsa los excrementos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cilla,silal,slila,ssilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for silla
Misspelling Variants of "silla"
Frequency rank: #3,082 in Spanish
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