silla turca
[ˈsiʝa ˈt̪uɾka]
The verdict
“silla turca” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nicho pequeño en forma de hueco, que en los vertebrados superiores está situado en la vertiente endocraneal del hueso esfenoides, en la base del cráneo. Aloja a la hipófisis (o glándula pituitaria)...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | silla turca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈsiʝa ˈt̪uɾka] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “silla turca” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for silla turca is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsiʝa ˈt̪uɾka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nicho pequeño en forma de hueco, que en los vertebrados superiores está situado en la vertiente endocraneal del hueso esfenoides, en la base del cráneo. Aloja a la hipófisis (o glándula pituitaria)...".
No misspelling variants are generated for silla turca 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 silla turca, spelled S-I-L-L-A- -T-U-R-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nicho pequeño en forma de hueco, que en los vertebrados superiores está situado en la vertiente endocraneal del hueso esfenoides, en la base del cráneo. Aloja a la hipófisis (o glándula pituitaria) y a las meninges.
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.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-I-L-L-A- -T-U-R-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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