cero
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,152
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cero is aSpanishnoun. It means: Nombre del número 0. Pronounced [ˈseɾo]. It ranks #2,152 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with co and cho.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈseɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cero is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈseɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,152 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for cero, with forms such as "ccero", "ceor", and "ecro". 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", "cho", "cor", 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 cero, spelled C-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre del número 0.
- 2Número que sirve para indicar la ausencia de cantidad por una parte (solo o a la izquierda), y por otra parte indica un aumento de la cantidad simplificando la escritura, como nuestro número cero cuando va a la derecha.
- 3Cantidad nula, sin elementos.
- 4Punto de partida en una escala de medición.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccero,ceor,ecro,sero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cero
Misspelling Variants of "cero"
Frequency rank: #2,152 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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