carnero
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,670
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carnero is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Ovis aries) Mamífero rumiante, de siete a ocho decímetros de altura hasta la cruz, frente convexa, cuernos huecos, angulosos, arrugados transversalmente y arrollados en espiral, lana espesa, blanc... Pronounced [kaɾˈneɾo]. Often confused with carro and casero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carnero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾˈneɾo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carnero is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɾˈneɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,670 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 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 carnero, with forms such as "acrnero", "canrero", and "carenro". 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, "carro", "casero", "carnes", 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 carnero, spelled C-A-R-N-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Ovis aries) Mamífero rumiante, de siete a ocho decímetros de altura hasta la cruz, frente convexa, cuernos huecos, angulosos, arrugados transversalmente y arrollados en espiral, lana espesa, blanca, negra o rojiza y pezuña hendida: es animal doméstico muy apreciado por su carne y por su lana.
- 2En particular, el macho adulto de Ovis aries.
- 3Piel curtida del carnero.
- 4Ariete.
- 5Esquirol (que no adhiere a una manifestación).
- 6Persona que no tiene voluntad ni iniciativa propias.
- 7Cornudo (persona que fue engañada).
- 8Pez colombiano de 2 a 10 cm de longitud, con púas en las agallas, que es parásito de otros peces más grandes.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrnero,canrero,carenro,carneor,carnerro,carnnero,carnreo,carrnero,ccarnero,cranero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carnero
Misspelling Variants of "carnero"
Frequency rank: #28,670 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: