cántaro
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,824
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cántaro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vasija de barro o de otro material, abombada en la porción central, de una o dos asas, empleada para transportar y contener líquidos. Pronounced [ˈkãn̪t̪aɾo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cántaro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkãn̪t̪aɾo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cántaro is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkãn̪t̪aɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,824 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cántaro in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 cántaro, spelled C-Á-N-T-A-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vasija de barro o de otro material, abombada en la porción central, de una o dos asas, empleada para transportar y contener líquidos.
- 2Recipiente de diferentes tamaños, de los cuales el mayor -de unos diez litros- sirve de medida.
- 3Contenido del recipiente: un cántaro de leche, de vino, etcétera. (en desuso)
- 4Arca pequeña o caja donde se colocan las bolas o cédulas para hacer sorteos.
- 5Instrumento musical de percusión idiófono que funciona golpeando la boca con una mano o con una alpargata, lo cual produce un sonido hueco y resonante.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #50,824 in Spanish
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