varilla
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,587
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
varilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Barra larga y delgada. Pronounced [baˈɾiʝa]. Often confused with villa and varita.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | varilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈɾiʝa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for varilla is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈɾiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #31,587 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for varilla, with forms such as "avrilla", "barilla", and "vairlla". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "villa", "varita", "varillas", 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 varilla, spelled V-A-R-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Barra larga y delgada.
- 2Cada una de las tiras de madera, marfil, etc. que forman la armazón del abanico.
- 3Cada una de las costillas de metal, madera o junco que forman la arnazón de los paraguas y quitasoles.
- 4Prueba que se hace con los caballos de carrera, para saber cuál es el más ágil.
- 5Cada uno de los dos huesos largos que forman la quijada y se unen por debajo de la barba.
- 6Género de plantas de la familia de las compuestas, tribu de las helianteas y subtribu de las verbesininas con bráctras involucrales internas planas, pajitas anchas, abovedadas o aquilladas, envolviendo maś o menos a las flores hermafroditas, pero sin encerrar del todo al aquenio.
- 7Nombre vulgar chileno de Oxalis virgosa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avrilla,barilla,vairlla,varila,varilal,varlila,varrilla,vrailla,vvarilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "varilla"
Frequency rank: #31,587 in Spanish
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