cerio
[ˈseɾjo]
The verdict
“cerio” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #96,096 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,096
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - El cerio es uno de los 14 elementos químicos que siguen al lantano en la tabla periódica, denominados por ello lantánidos. De color gris metálico similar al hierro, se torna pardo rojizo al exponer...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cerio · cerio · Spanish
cerio · rank #96,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,096
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH ceniciento
Nearest frequency peer: ceniciento (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cerio”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- carías
carías
3,910 corpus weight
- castigaban
castigaban
3,909 corpus weight
- cavalleria
cavalleria
3,908 corpus weight
- ceniciento
ceniciento
3,906 corpus weight
- cerio
cerio
3,905 corpus weight
- Chilo
Chilo
3,899 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cerio” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈseɾjo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cerio” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cerio is uncommon Spanish at frequency #96,096 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈseɾjo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "El cerio es uno de los 14 elementos químicos que siguen al lantano en la tabla periódica, denominados por ello lantánidos. De color gris metálico similar al hierro, se torna pardo rojizo al exponer...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cerio, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cerio, spelled C-E-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1El cerio es uno de los 14 elementos químicos que siguen al lantano en la tabla periódica, denominados por ello lantánidos. De color gris metálico similar al hierro, se torna pardo rojizo al exponerlo al aire, es un elemento muy escaso en la corteza terrestre, donde aparece disperso en diversos minerales.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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