cencerro

/[sẽnˈsero]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#87,601

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cencerro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Campana pequeña y cilíndrica, por lo común tosca, hecha con chapa de hierro o de cobre. Se usa para el ganado y suele atarse al cuello de las reses. Pronounced [sẽnˈsero].

Key facts for cencerro
PropertyValue
Headwordcencerro
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[sẽnˈsero]
Letters8
Frequency rank#87,601
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cencerro is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sẽnˈsero]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,601 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Campana pequeña y cilíndrica, por lo común tosca, hecha con chapa de hierro o de cobre. Se usa para el ganado y suele atarse al cuello de las reses.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cencerro in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 cencerro, spelled C-E-N-C-E-R-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Campana pequeña y cilíndrica, por lo común tosca, hecha con chapa de hierro o de cobre. Se usa para el ganado y suele atarse al cuello de las reses.

Frequency rank: #87,601 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cencerro"?
"cencerro" is spelled C-E-N-C-E-R-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is [sẽnˈsero].
What does "cencerro" mean?
As a noun, "cencerro" means: Campana pequeña y cilíndrica, por lo común tosca, hecha con chapa de hierro o de cobre. Se usa para el ganado y suele atarse al cuello de las reses.
How do you pronounce "cencerro"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cencerro" is [sẽnˈsero]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cencerro" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.