tornillo punta aguja
[t̪oɾˈniʝo ˈpũn̪t̪a aˈɣ̞uxa]
The verdict
“tornillo punta aguja” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Especie de tornillo autoperforante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tornillo punta aguja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [t̪oɾˈniʝo ˈpũn̪t̪a aˈɣ̞uxa] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tornillo punta aguja” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tornillo punta aguja is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oɾˈniʝo ˈpũn̪t̪a aˈɣ̞uxa]. 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: "Especie de tornillo autoperforante.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tornillo punta aguja 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 tornillo punta aguja, spelled T-O-R-N-I-L-L-O- -P-U-N-T-A- -A-G-U-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Especie de tornillo autoperforante.
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 T-O-R-N-I-L-L-O- -P-U-N-T-A- -A-G-U-J-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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