vaquilla

/[baˈkiʝa]/ noun

The verdict

“vaquilla” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #80,589 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.

#80,589
frequency rank, Spanish
8
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Hembra de los vacunos que no ha tenido partos y que tiene entre 10 y 30 meses de edad.

Key facts for vaquilla
PropertyValue
Headwordvaquilla
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[baˈkiʝa]
Letters8
Frequency rank#80,589
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “vaquilla” sits in Spanish frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). vaquilla lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for vaquilla is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈkiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #80,589 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for vaquilla 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 vaquilla, spelled V-A-Q-U-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hembra de los vacunos que no ha tenido partos y que tiene entre 10 y 30 meses de edad.
  2. 2
    Parihuelas en la que se colocan unos cuernos de vaca o toro, y cencerros que llevan los jovenes por carnaval, embistiendo a todo lo que encuentran por la calle.

Frequency rank: #80,589 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vaquilla"?
"vaquilla" is spelled V-A-Q-U-I-L-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [baˈkiʝa].
What does "vaquilla" mean?
As a noun, "vaquilla" means: Hembra de los vacunos que no ha tenido partos y que tiene entre 10 y 30 meses de edad.
How do you pronounce "vaquilla"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vaquilla" is [baˈkiʝa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vaquilla" come from?
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Using “vaquilla”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is V-A-Q-U-I-L-L-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [baˈkiʝa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.