chilillo
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈliʝo/ [t͡ʃiˈli.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈliʎo/ [t͡ʃiˈli.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈliʃo/ [t͡ʃiˈli.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈliʒo/ [t͡ʃiˈli.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Audio (Costa Rica): (file)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: chi‧li‧llo
Noun
chilillo m (plural chilillos)
- (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico) a kind of whip
- (Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica) a stick
Further reading
- “chilillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025