cetro
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,146
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cetro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vara o bastón de oro u otra materia preciosa, labrada con detalle, de que usan solamente emperadores y reyes por insignia de su dignidad. Pronounced [ˈset̪ɾo]. Often confused with Coro and Ciro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cetro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈset̪ɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cetro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈset̪ɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,146 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 cetro, with forms such as "ccetro", "certo", and "cetor". 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, "Coro", "Ciro", "curo", 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 cetro, spelled C-E-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vara o bastón de oro u otra materia preciosa, labrada con detalle, de que usan solamente emperadores y reyes por insignia de su dignidad.
- 2Vara de plata, o de madera dorada, plateada o pintada, de que usan en sus actos públicos las congregaciones, cofradías o sacramentales, llevándola sus mayordomos o diputados.
- 3Por metonimia, cargo simbolizado por el cetro₁.
- 4Período durante el cual alguno porta el cetro₃.
- 5Por extensión, condición máxima o más elevada en su género.
- 6Mueble heráldico en forma de cetro₁.
- 7Vara de la percha en la que se posan las aves de cetrería.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccetro,certo,cetor,cetrro,cettro,ctero,ectro,setro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cetro
Misspelling Variants of "cetro"
Frequency rank: #27,146 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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