cilantro

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cilantro is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siˈlãn̪t̪ɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #32,556 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Coriandrum sativum) Planta anual, herbácea, de la familia de las apiáceas, de tallo erecto de hasta 50 cm de altura, hojas compuestas, lobuladas en la región basal y aciculadas hacia el ápice, inf...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cilantro, with forms such as "ccilantro", "cialntro", and "cilanntro". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cilindro", "cianuro", 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 cilantro, spelled C-I-L-A-N-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.