cilantro
[siˈlãn̪t̪ɾo]
The verdict
“cilantro” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #32,556. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,556
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cilantro · cilantro · Spanish
cilantro · rank #32,556 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,556
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cinto
Nearest frequency peer: cinto (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “cilantro”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Chacabuco
Chacabuco
67,449 corpus weight
- chocho
chocho
67,447 corpus weight
- cilantro
cilantro
67,445 corpus weight
- cinto
cinto
67,444 corpus weight
- clarificar
clarificar
67,443 corpus weight
- close
close
67,441 corpus weight
What this shows “cilantro” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cilantro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈlãn̪t̪ɾo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cilantro”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cilantro (IPA [siˈlãn̪t̪ɾo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,556 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(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". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cilindro", "cianuro", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cilantro, spelled C-I-L-A-N-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1(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, inflorescencias en umbelas de color blanco a rosa, y fruto en esquizocarpo de 3 a 5 mm de diámetro. Sus hojas y frutos se emplean como especia en gastronomía.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cilantro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De cominos e de anis e alcaravia e cilantro seco que se vendiere por celemines dos marauedis vna vez todo el año.
el cilantro y la albahaca que tiemblan ateridos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccilantro
- cialntro
- cilanntro
- cilanrto
- cilantor
- cilantrro
- cilanttro
- cilatnro
- cillantro
- cilnatro
- cliantro
- iclantro
- silantro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cilantro - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cilantro", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).