Cerro Largo
[ˈsero ˈlaɾɣ̞o]
The verdict
“Cerro Largo” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Departamento del Uruguay ubicado al este del país.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cerro Largo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈsero ˈlaɾɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cerro Largo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Cerro Largo is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsero ˈlaɾɣ̞o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Departamento del Uruguay ubicado al este del país.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cerro Largo 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 Cerro Largo, spelled C-E-R-R-O- -L-A-R-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Departamento del Uruguay ubicado al este del país.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Cerro Largo”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-E-R-R-O- -L-A-R-G-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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