cepo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,972
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cepo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Madero grande, con agujeros calados para el cuello y manos, que se usaba para inmovilizar a los reos como parte de su castigo Pronounced [ˈsepo]. Often confused with co and cup.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cepo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsepo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cepo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsepo]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,972 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for cepo, with forms such as "ccepo", "ceop", and "ceppo". 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, "co", "cup", "cho", 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 cepo, spelled C-E-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Madero grande, con agujeros calados para el cuello y manos, que se usaba para inmovilizar a los reos como parte de su castigo
- 2Trampa para animales formada por dos o más piezas que se cierran al contacto, atrapando a la presa
- 3Instrumento para atrapar la rueda de un vehículo, impidiendo su marcha
- 4Instrumento para fijar una pieza de artillería al vehículo que la transporta
- 5Instrumento formado por dos maderos largos y delgados, que se emplea para sujetar periódicos o revistas en sitios de lectura pública
- 6Arancel que se cobra para limitar el acceso a divisas extranjeras y regular las transacciones de cambio de moneda. Usualmente implementado en tiempos de crisis con el fin de proteger las reservas monetarias.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccepo,ceop,ceppo,cpeo,ecpo,sepo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cepo
Misspelling Variants of "cepo"
Frequency rank: #36,972 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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