zorrillo
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#53,958
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
zorrillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Mephitis, Conepatus, Mydaus, Spilogale) Cualquier especie de la familia de los mefítidos, pequeños carnívoros de color negro con dos fajas blancas al costado, que despide cuando le atacan un líqui... Pronounced [soˈriʝo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zorrillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [soˈriʝo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for zorrillo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [soˈriʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,958 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zorrillo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 zorrillo, spelled Z-O-R-R-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Mephitis, Conepatus, Mydaus, Spilogale) Cualquier especie de la familia de los mefítidos, pequeños carnívoros de color negro con dos fajas blancas al costado, que despide cuando le atacan un líquido pestífero.
- 2Figuradamente, algo o alguien maloliente.
- 3Por analogía, vehículo policial equipado para disparar gas lacrimógeno.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #53,958 in Spanish
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