tornillo
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,103
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
tornillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza de forma cilíndrica o cónica, con una estría helicoidal a lo largo que permite enroscarla en otro objeto. Algunos pueden enroscarse solos, otros requieren tuercas para fijarlos. Pronounced [t̪oɾˈniʝo]. Often confused with trillo and tortilla.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tornillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪oɾˈniʝo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tornillo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oɾˈniʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,103 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for tornillo, with forms such as "otrnillo", "tonrillo", and "torinllo". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "trillo", "tortilla", "tornillos", 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 tornillo, spelled T-O-R-N-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza de forma cilíndrica o cónica, con una estría helicoidal a lo largo que permite enroscarla en otro objeto. Algunos pueden enroscarse solos, otros requieren tuercas para fijarlos.
- 2Herramienta formada por dos mandíbulas, cuya distancia se regula mediante un tornillo₁, usada para fijar piezas a un banco de trabajo.
- 3(Prosopis pubescens) Arbusto de la familia de las fabáceas, nativo de las regiones áridas de Norteamérica, de hasta 7 m de altura, troncos espinosos, hojas bipinnadas y flores rojas, que fructifican dando una vaina de característica forma de tornillo₁, cuyas semillas se emplean en gastronomía.
- 4Aguda sensación de frío.
- 5Acción y efecto de desertar un soldado.
- 6Tipo de pasta alimenticia de forma helicoidal por analogía con la pieza metálica.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otrnillo,tonrillo,torinllo,tornilo,tornilol,tornlilo,tornnillo,torrnillo,tronillo,ttornillo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tornillo
Misspelling Variants of "tornillo"
Frequency rank: #18,103 in Spanish
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