cierto
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#352
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cierto is anSpanishadj. It means: Que se sabe real, verdadero, que no ofrece dudas. Pronounced [ˈsjeɾt̪o]. It ranks #352 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Ciro and corto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cierto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈsjeɾt̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cierto is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsjeɾt̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #352 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cierto, with forms such as "ccierto", "ceirto", and "cierot". 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, "Ciro", "corto", "circo", 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 cierto, spelled C-I-E-R-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que se sabe real, verdadero, que no ofrece dudas.
- 2Usado inmediatamente antes de un sustantivo: Indeterminado.
- 3Considerable, suficiente.
- 4Hablando de los perros, se dice de aquellos que dan señas ciertas de la caza, y que seguramente la levantan.
- 5Sabedor, seguro de la verdad de algún hecho.
- 6Certero.
- 7Fullero.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccierto,ceirto,cierot,cierrto,ciertto,cietro,cireto,icerto,sierto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cierto
Misspelling Variants of "cierto"
Frequency rank: #352 in Spanish
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