adorno

/[aˈð̞oɾno]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,750

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

adorno is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento o composición que sirve para embellecer personas o cosas. Pronounced [aˈð̞oɾno]. Often confused with adoro and aforo.

Key facts for adorno
PropertyValue
Headwordadorno
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈð̞oɾno]
Letters6
Frequency rank#14,750
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of adorno in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for adorno is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈð̞oɾno]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,750 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Elemento o composición que sirve para embellecer personas o cosas.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for adorno, with forms such as "addorno", "adonro", and "adornno". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "adoro", "aforo", "ahorro", and more, 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 adorno, spelled A-D-O-R-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Elemento o composición que sirve para embellecer personas o cosas.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: addorno,adonro,adornno,adoron,adorrno,adrono,aodrno,daorno

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adorno

Misspelling Variants of "adorno"

addorno7adonro6adornno7adoron6adorrno7adrono6aodrno6daorno6
Misspelling Variants of "adorno"

Frequency rank: #14,750 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adorno"?
"adorno" is spelled A-D-O-R-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈð̞oɾno].
What does "adorno" mean?
As a noun, "adorno" means: Elemento o composición que sirve para embellecer personas o cosas.
What words are commonly confused with "adorno"?
"adorno" is commonly confused with "adoro", "aforo", "ahorro". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adorno"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adorno" is [aˈð̞oɾno]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adorno" come from?
"adorno" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.