cerradura
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,899
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
cerradura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mecanismo usualmente de metal que se incorpora a puertas, cajones de armarios, cofres, arcones, etc., para impedir que se puedan abrir sin la llave y así proteger su contenido. Este mecanismo se pu... Pronounced [seraˈð̞uɾa]. Often confused with cerrará and cerraduras.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerradura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seraˈð̞uɾa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cerradura is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seraˈð̞uɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,899 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for cerradura, with forms such as "ccerradura", "ceradura", and "cerardura". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cerrará", "cerraduras", "cerrada", 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 cerradura, spelled C-E-R-R-A-D-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mecanismo usualmente de metal que se incorpora a puertas, cajones de armarios, cofres, arcones, etc., para impedir que se puedan abrir sin la llave y así proteger su contenido. Este mecanismo se puede accionar mediante una llave normalmente de acero. En la actualidad, aparte de las cerraduras mecánicas, existen otras como las electro-mecánicas o las electrónicas, en las que la llave puede ser una tarjeta de plástico o PVC.
- 2Acción o efecto de cerrar o cerrarse.
- 3Acción o efecto de encerrar.
- 4Pequeño terreno en el que se siembran verduras, hortalizas y legumbres, que está rodeado por una valla.
- 5Valla, muro o cierre que rodea un sitio, casa, huerto, etc.
- 6Mínimo conjunto que es "cerrado" bajo una cierta propiedad o que contiene justo la mínima cantidad de elementos que hace determinada propiedad sea cierta para el conjunto, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccerradura,ceradura,cerardura,cerraddura,cerradrua,cerraduar,cerradurra,cerraudra,cerrdaura,creradura,ecrradura,serradura
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cerradura
Misspelling Variants of "cerradura"
Frequency rank: #17,899 in Spanish
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