barrero
The verdict
“barrero” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #73,398 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #73,398
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Tierras salitrosas, blanquecinas, cubiertas de pastos ralos y de un arbusto de las mimosas llamado charlar que da un fruto amarillo comestible; en los barreros la hacienda vacuna escarba y hace gra...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barrero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈreɾo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “barrero” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for barrero is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈreɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #73,398 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tierras salitrosas, blanquecinas, cubiertas de pastos ralos y de un arbusto de las mimosas llamado charlar que da un fruto amarillo comestible; en los barreros la hacienda vacuna escarba y hace gra...".
No misspelling variants are generated for barrero in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 barrero, spelled B-A-R-R-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tierras salitrosas, blanquecinas, cubiertas de pastos ralos y de un arbusto de las mimosas llamado charlar que da un fruto amarillo comestible; en los barreros la hacienda vacuna escarba y hace grandes hoyos para lamer la tierra salitroso.
Frequency rank: #73,398 in Spanish
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Using “barrero”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-R-R-E-R-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [baˈreɾo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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