cloro
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,563
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cloro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento químico de número atómico 17 situado en el grupo de los halógenos (grupo VII A) de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Cl. En condiciones normales y en estado puro es un gas... Pronounced [ˈkloɾo]. Often confused with cor and coo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkloɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cloro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkloɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,563 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cloro, with forms such as "ccloro", "clloro", and "clorro". 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, "cor", "coo", "cómo", 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 cloro, spelled C-L-O-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elemento químico de número atómico 17 situado en el grupo de los halógenos (grupo VII A) de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Cl. En condiciones normales y en estado puro es un gas amarillo-verdoso.
- 2Mezcla de agua con una baja concentración de hipoclorito de sodio, usada para limpiar, blanquear las telas o desinfectar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccloro,clloro,clorro,clroo,lcoro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cloro
Misspelling Variants of "cloro"
Frequency rank: #15,563 in Spanish
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