villancico
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,349
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
villancico is aSpanishnoun. It means: Canción tradicional de celebración navideña. Pronounced [biʝãnˈsiko]. Often confused with villancicos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | villancico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [biʝãnˈsiko] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #49,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for villancico is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [biʝãnˈsiko]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,349 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for villancico, with forms such as "billancico", "ivllancico", and "vilalncico". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "villancicos", 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 villancico, spelled V-I-L-L-A-N-C-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Canción tradicional de celebración navideña.
- 2Canción tradicional breve que con frecuencia alternaba estrofas interpretadas por un solista con la repetición de un estribillo. Fue cultivado tanto en España y Portugal como en sus territorios americanos desde la época del Renacimiento.
- 3Tipo de poema con versos arte menor, generalmente hexasílabos u octosílabos, que siempre incluye un estribillo. Igual que su versión musical₂, fue cultivado en toda la Península Ibérica y en sus territorios de América.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: billancico,ivllancico,vilalncico,vilancico,villacnico,villanccico,villanccio,villancicco,villancioc,villanicco,villanncico,villansico,villnacico,vlilancico,vvillancico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for villancico
Misspelling Variants of "villancico"
Frequency rank: #49,349 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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