cernícalo
The verdict
“cernícalo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #86,582 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #86,582
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Falco tinnunculus) Especie de ave falconiforme de la familia Falconidae extendida por Europa, Asia y África, y de manera accidental en Norteamérica, Caribe, Sudamérica e Indonesia. Tiene alas larg...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cernícalo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seɾˈnikalo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cernícalo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cernícalo is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seɾˈnikalo]. Corpus data places it at rank #86,582 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for cernícalo 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 cernícalo, spelled C-E-R-N-Í-C-A-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Falco tinnunculus) Especie de ave falconiforme de la familia Falconidae extendida por Europa, Asia y África, y de manera accidental en Norteamérica, Caribe, Sudamérica e Indonesia. Tiene alas largas de color bermejo con manchas negras, así como una larga cola muy distintiva, gris por la parte superior y de borde redondeado y negro. El plumaje de los machos en la cabeza es azul-grisáceo. Miden de 34 a 38 cm de cabeza a cola, y de 70 a 80 centímetros de envergadura de alas. El macho adulto medio pesa cerca de 155 g, y la hembra cerca de 190 g.
- 2(Falco sparverius) Especie de ave falconiforme extendida por América.
- 3Hombre rústico, sin educación.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #86,582 in Spanish
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Using “cernícalo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-E-R-N-Í-C-A-L-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [seɾˈnikalo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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