cerro

/[ˈsero]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,680

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

cerro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elevación aislada de poca altura. Pronounced [ˈsero]. It ranks #3,680 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with creo and Coro.

Key facts for cerro
PropertyValue
Headwordcerro
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈsero]
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,680
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cerro in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cerro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsero]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,680 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Elevación aislada de poca altura.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cerro, with forms such as "ccerro", "ceror", and "crero". 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, "creo", "Coro", "Ciro", 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 cerro, spelled C-E-R-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Elevación aislada de poca altura.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccerro,ceror,crero,ecrro,serro

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cerro

Misspelling Variants of "cerro"

ccerro6ceror5crero5ecrro5serro5
Misspelling Variants of "cerro"

Frequency rank: #3,680 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cerro"?
"cerro" is spelled C-E-R-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsero].
What does "cerro" mean?
As a noun, "cerro" means: Elevación aislada de poca altura.
What words are commonly confused with "cerro"?
"cerro" is commonly confused with "creo", "Coro", "Ciro". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cerro"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cerro" is [ˈsero]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cerro" come from?
"cerro" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.