borrego
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,077
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
borrego is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cría de oveja de entre 1 y 2 años de edad. Pronounced [boˈreɣ̞o]. Often confused with borro and borroso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borrego |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [boˈreɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for borrego is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [boˈreɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,077 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for borrego, with forms such as "bborrego", "borego", and "borergo". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "borro", "borroso", "Borrell", 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 borrego, spelled B-O-R-R-E-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cría de oveja de entre 1 y 2 años de edad.
- 2Pieza de ropa confeccionada de la piel del borrego₁, apreciada como abrigo.
- 3Nube cuya forma recuerda el cuerpo lanudo de un borrego₁.
- 4Persona que obedece ciegamente la voluntad de otros.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bborrego,borego,borergo,borreggo,borreog,borrgeo,brorego,obrrego,vorrego
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for borrego
Misspelling Variants of "borrego"
Frequency rank: #29,077 in Spanish
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