cesto
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,014
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cesto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Recipiente tejido con mimbres, varillas u otros derivados de la madera, o hecho con materiales sintéticos, en especial cuando es más alto que ancho, y de mayor tamaño que una cesta normal. Pronounced [ˈsest̪o]. Often confused with coso and cost.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cesto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsest̪o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cesto is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsest̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,014 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cesto, with forms such as "ccesto", "cesot", and "cessto". 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, "coso", "cost", "costa", 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 cesto, spelled C-E-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recipiente tejido con mimbres, varillas u otros derivados de la madera, o hecho con materiales sintéticos, en especial cuando es más alto que ancho, y de mayor tamaño que una cesta normal.
- 2Recipiente pequeño de mimbre, canasto pequeño.
- 3Meta del baloncestista, que consiste en un aro metálico del que cuelga una redecilla abierta para ralentizar el paso de la pelota.
- 4Recipiente de rejilla con diferentes usos y formas.
- 5Recipiente plástico o metálico, completamente cerrado que se usa comúnmente para guardar y transportar alimentos cocinados.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccesto,cesot,cessto,cestto,cetso,cseto,ecsto,sesto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cesto
Misspelling Variants of "cesto"
Frequency rank: #33,014 in Spanish
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