carroño

/[kaˈroɲo]/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

carroño is aSpanishverb. It means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de carroñar. Pronounced [kaˈroɲo].

Key facts for carroño
PropertyValue
Headwordcarroño
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[kaˈroɲo]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

carroño is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for carroño is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈroɲo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de carroñar.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for carroño 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 carroño, spelled C-A-R-R-O-Ñ-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de carroñar.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carroño"?
"carroño" is spelled C-A-R-R-O-Ñ-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kaˈroɲo].
What does "carroño" mean?
As a verb, "carroño" means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de carroñar.
How do you pronounce "carroño"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carroño" is [kaˈroɲo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carroño" come from?
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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.