carajo

/[kaˈɾaxo]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,069

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

carajo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Órgano eréctil que presenta el macho de los mamíferos, homólogo del clítoris femenino, en el que desembocan los conductos del tracto genitourinario. En algunos animales se retrae en la ingle, y sól... Pronounced [kaˈɾaxo]. It ranks #2,069 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with caro and cargo.

Key facts for carajo
PropertyValue
Headwordcarajo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kaˈɾaxo]
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,069
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of carajo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for carajo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈɾaxo]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,069 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Órgano eréctil que presenta el macho de los mamíferos, homólogo del clítoris femenino, en el que desembocan los conductos del tracto genitourinario. En algunos animales se retrae en la ingle, y sól...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for carajo, with forms such as "acrajo", "caarjo", and "carajjo". 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, "caro", "cargo", "caras", 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 carajo, spelled C-A-R-A-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Órgano eréctil que presenta el macho de los mamíferos, homólogo del clítoris femenino, en el que desembocan los conductos del tracto genitourinario. En algunos animales se retrae en la ingle, y sólo se extiende durante la excreción y la cópula; en el ser humano no es retráctil. Está compuesto en su mayor parte por tejidos esponjosos, llamados cuerpos cavernosos, que al saturarse de sangre producen la erección.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acrajo,caarjo,carajjo,caraoj,carjao,carrajo,ccarajo,craajo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carajo

Misspelling Variants of "carajo"

acrajo6caarjo6carajjo7caraoj6carjao6carrajo7ccarajo7craajo6
Misspelling Variants of "carajo"

Frequency rank: #2,069 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carajo"?
"carajo" is spelled C-A-R-A-J-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kaˈɾaxo].
What does "carajo" mean?
As a noun, "carajo" means: Órgano eréctil que presenta el macho de los mamíferos, homólogo del clítoris femenino, en el que desembocan los conductos del tracto genitourinario. En algunos animales se retrae en la ingle, y sól...
What words are commonly confused with "carajo"?
"carajo" is commonly confused with "caro", "cargo", "caras". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "carajo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carajo" is [kaˈɾaxo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carajo" come from?
"carajo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.