canguro
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,527
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
canguro is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Macropus spp.) Cualquiera de cuatro especies de mamíferos marsupiales nativos de Australia, de cuerpo erecto, patas traseras musculosas dotadas de grandes pies adaptados para saltar, cola larga y ... Pronounced [kãŋˈguɾo]. Often confused with canuto and cianuro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canguro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kãŋˈguɾo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for canguro is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kãŋˈguɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,527 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for canguro, with forms such as "acnguro", "cagnuro", and "cangguro". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "canuto", "cianuro", "conjuro", 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 canguro, spelled C-A-N-G-U-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Macropus spp.) Cualquiera de cuatro especies de mamíferos marsupiales nativos de Australia, de cuerpo erecto, patas traseras musculosas dotadas de grandes pies adaptados para saltar, cola larga y fuerte, vientre con marsupio, manos pequeñas y cabeza alargada con grandes orejas.
- 2Por analogía con el marsupio del canguro₁, prenda de abrigo para el torso con un bolsillo ocupando el abdomen.
- 3Por analogía, arnés para transportar un bebé junto al abdomen.
- 4Bolso pequeño y fijado a una correa para llevarlo a la cintura.
- 5Resaca alcohólica muy fuerte.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnguro,cagnuro,cangguro,cangruo,canguor,cangurro,cannguro,canugro,ccanguro,cnaguro
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for canguro
Misspelling Variants of "canguro"
Frequency rank: #29,527 in Spanish
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