canto
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,538
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
canto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Serie de sonidos modulados de modo armonioso o rítmico por la voz humana. Pronounced [ˈkãn̪t̪o]. It ranks #3,538 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cat and caso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkãn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for canto is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkãn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,538 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for canto, with forms such as "acnto", "cannto", and "canot". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cat", "caso", "coño", 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 canto, spelled C-A-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Serie de sonidos modulados de modo armonioso o rítmico por la voz humana.
- 2Arte o técnica de cantar₁.
- 3Emisión de sonidos melodiosos o ritmícos por parte de un animal, o aquel que le es característico; generalmente, se aplica a las aves.
- 4Composición poética, especialmente la perteneciente al género heroico, de tono elevado o solemne.
- 5Composición de otro género realizada para una aplicación determinada.
- 6Definición genérica que se hace de cualquier composición lírica.
- 7Cada parte en que se halla dividido un poema épico.
- 8Alabanza y exaltación para destacar una virtud o cualidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnto,cannto,canot,cantto,catno,ccanto,cnato
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for canto
Misspelling Variants of "canto"
Frequency rank: #3,538 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: