cardo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,867
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cardo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Nombre común dado a múltiples especies de plantas en las familias de las asteráceas, las apiáceas y las dipsacáceas, caracterizadas por un tallo herbáceo vertical de gran porte, tachonado de espina... Pronounced [ˈkaɾð̞o]. Often confused with creo and caso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaɾð̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cardo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaɾð̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,867 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cardo, with forms such as "acrdo", "cadro", and "carddo". 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, "creo", "caso", "cero", 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 cardo, spelled C-A-R-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre común dado a múltiples especies de plantas en las familias de las asteráceas, las apiáceas y las dipsacáceas, caracterizadas por un tallo herbáceo vertical de gran porte, tachonado de espinas, e inflorescencias terminales en forma de densos capítulos. Muchas especies son comestibles.
- 2(Cynara cardunculus) Cardo comestible. El cultivado en huerta es de hojas carnosas en forma de pencas, de color verde claro que puede alcanzar hasta un metro de altura.
- 3Persona de carácter áspero o agresivo.
- 4Persona fea. ^([cita requerida]).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrdo,cadro,carddo,carod,carrdo,ccardo,crado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cardo"
Frequency rank: #42,867 in Spanish
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