cartucho
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,655
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
cartucho is aSpanishnoun. It means: Carga de pólvora y municiones o de pólvora sola, correspondiente a cada tiro de alguna arma de fuego, envuelta en papel o lienzo, o encerrada en un tubo metálico, para cargar de una vez. Pronounced [kaɾˈt̪ut͡ʃo]. Often confused with caucho and cartuchos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cartucho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾˈt̪ut͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cartucho is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɾˈt̪ut͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,655 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for cartucho, with forms such as "acrtucho", "carrtucho", and "cartcuho". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "caucho", "cartuchos", 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 cartucho, spelled C-A-R-T-U-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Carga de pólvora y municiones o de pólvora sola, correspondiente a cada tiro de alguna arma de fuego, envuelta en papel o lienzo, o encerrada en un tubo metálico, para cargar de una vez.
- 2Lío o envoltorio de monedas de una misma clase, en figura de cilindro o columna.
- 3(Digitalis purpurea) Planta herbácea bienal de la familia de las escrofularáceas. Sus hojas crecen en roseta el primer año y en un tallo erecto el segundo, sus flores tienen forma acampanada y color púrpura o blanco. Contiene dos sustancias venenosas, la digitoxina y la digoxina, que tienen usos en medicina y biología molecular.
- 4(Antirrhinum majus) Planta cultivada en jardinería de la familia Plantaginaceae. Tallos paralelos verticales de de un metro de altura, hojas alternas lineares, inflorescencia en racimos terminales de colores que van del blanco, pasando por el amarillo, hasta el rojo obscuro. Si se aprieta la flor lateralmente, esta se abre mostrando su interior.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrtucho,carrtucho,cartcuho,carttucho,cartuccho,cartuchho,cartucoh,cartuhco,carutcho,catrucho,ccartucho,cratucho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cartucho
Misspelling Variants of "cartucho"
Frequency rank: #19,655 in Spanish
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