cerrillo
[seˈriʝo]
The verdict
“cerrillo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,725 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,725
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de cerrillar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cerrillo · cerrillo · Spanish
cerrillo · rank #82,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,725
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 77,812
- PHOTO-FINISH cercenar
Nearest frequency peer: cercenar (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cerrillo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- centenarias
centenarias
17,279 corpus weight
- cercando
cercando
17,278 corpus weight
- cercenar
cercenar
17,277 corpus weight
- cerrillo
cerrillo
17,276 corpus weight
- cette
cette
17,275 corpus weight
- chaman
chaman
17,273 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cerrillo” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerrillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [seˈriʝo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cerrillo” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cerrillo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,725 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [seˈriʝo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de cerrillar.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cerrillo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is cerrillo, spelled C-E-R-R-I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de cerrillar.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cerrillo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.