cereal

/[seɾeˈal]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,301

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

cereal is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de numerosas plantas de la familia de las poáceas, cultivadas por su fruto en forma de cariópside. Éste, llamado vulgarmente grano, se consume fresco o seco y molido en forma de harina, ... Pronounced [seɾeˈal]. Often confused with CREA and crear.

Key facts for cereal
PropertyValue
Headwordcereal
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[seɾeˈal]
Letters6
Frequency rank#15,301
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cereal is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seɾeˈal]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,301 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cereal, with forms such as "ccereal", "ceeral", and "cerael". 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, "CREA", "crear", "Corea", 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 cereal, spelled C-E-R-E-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cualquiera de numerosas plantas de la familia de las poáceas, cultivadas por su fruto en forma de cariópside. Éste, llamado vulgarmente grano, se consume fresco o seco y molido en forma de harina, constituyendo la base de la alimentación en muchas culturas.
  2. 2
    En particular, fruto de estas plantas.
  3. 3
    Alimento preparado a partir de estos frutos y consumido remojado en leche u otro líquido, con frecuencia como parte del desayuno.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccereal,ceeral,cerael,cereall,cerela,cerreal,creeal,ecreal,sereal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cereal

Misspelling Variants of "cereal"

ccereal7ceeral6cerael6cereall7cerela6cerreal7creeal6ecreal6
Misspelling Variants of "cereal"

Frequency rank: #15,301 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cereal"?
"cereal" is spelled C-E-R-E-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [seɾeˈal].
What does "cereal" mean?
As a noun, "cereal" means: Cualquiera de numerosas plantas de la familia de las poáceas, cultivadas por su fruto en forma de cariópside. Éste, llamado vulgarmente grano, se consume fresco o seco y molido en forma de harina, ...
What words are commonly confused with "cereal"?
"cereal" is commonly confused with "CREA", "crear", "Corea". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cereal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cereal" is [seɾeˈal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cereal" come from?
"cereal" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.