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el cerillo in English

match (to light a fire) noun Latin America

Number 2,072 of the 5,000 most used words in Latin American Spanish.

Example

¿Tienes un cerillo para encender las velas?

Have you got a match to light the candles?

In Spain

People say la cerilla.

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