Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | trillo | triple |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Apero o herramienta agrícola destinada a separar el trigo de la paja, es decir, a trillar. Tiene forma de tablero grueso con el frontal curvado hacia arriba (como un trineo), cuyo vientre está guarnecido de esquirlas cortantes de piedra (lascas), o de sierras metálicas (cuchillas). La trilla se produce al arrastrar el trillo sobre la parva, es decir, sobre las mieses de cereal repartidas en el suelo de la era (empedrada de cantos rodados de cuarcita): las lascas, o las cuchillas separan la semilla de la paja sin dañarla. | Que es exactamente tres veces más grande que otro, que lo contiene tres veces; que triplica un número, una cantidad o una cualidad. |
Letter-by-Letter Comparison
Word Length Comparison: trillo vs triple
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
trillo and triple form a confusable pair in the Spanish index, two distinct headwords that writers substitute for each other because they look alike, sound alike, or both. The pair differs by a single letter swap, which is exactly the edit distance at which substitution errors are most common: close enough that the eye skips over the difference, far enough that meaning fully diverges. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48362, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
Side-by-side the two words carry different dictionary signatures. trillo is recorded at frequency rank #43,306, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈt̪ɾiʝo]. triple is at rank #5,056, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈt̪ɾiple]. When the two words belong to different parts of speech, sentence grammar alone usually resolves the confusion; when they share a part of speech, only semantic context separates them, which is why the pair earns a dedicated lookup page.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice. Automated spell-checkers cannot flag confusable substitution because every member of the pair is a valid dictionary word, only the writer, or a grammar/context tool, can confirm that the chosen spelling matches the intended meaning. PlainSpell's confusable index exists precisely to make that contextual choice explicit.
Frequency comparison
Frequently Asked Questions
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