cierre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,331
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
cierre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de cerrar o de cerrarse. Pronounced [ˈsjere]. It ranks #2,331 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with corre and cierto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cierre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsjere] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cierre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsjere]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,331 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cierre, with forms such as "ccierre", "ceirre", and "ciere". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "corre", "cierto", "cierta", 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 cierre, spelled C-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de cerrar o de cerrarse.
- 2Clausura temporal de tiendas y otros establecimientos mercantiles, por lo regular concertada entre los dueños.
- 3Mecanismo que se usa para cerrar o cubrir algo.
- 4Mecanismo que se usa para obturar la culata de armas, que permite introducir un cartucho en la recámara.
- 5Cierre metálico.
- 6Cierre relámpago.
- 7Mecanismo usado para sujetar piezas.
- 8Trabajo u obra que concluye otra. Se usa especialmente en referencia a obras teatrales.
- 9Culminación de la programación diaria de un programa televisivo o de radio.
- 10Culminación de la fecha de admisión de originales para la edición que está en prensa.
- 11Invernadero.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccierre,ceirre,ciere,cierer,cirere,icerre,sierre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cierre
Misspelling Variants of "cierre"
Frequency rank: #2,331 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: