contralor
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,165
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
contralor is aSpanishnoun. It means: En el cuerpo de artillería y en los hospitales del ejército: persona que interviene en la cuenta y razón de los caudales y efectos. Pronounced [kõn̪t̪ɾaˈloɾ]. Often confused with contrato and controlo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contralor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪ɾaˈloɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for contralor is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪t̪ɾaˈloɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,165 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for contralor, with forms such as "ccontralor", "cnotralor", and "conntralor". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "contrato", "controlo", "controlar", 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 contralor, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-L-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En el cuerpo de artillería y en los hospitales del ejército: persona que interviene en la cuenta y razón de los caudales y efectos.
- 2Oficio honorífico de la casa real, según la etiqueta de la de Borgoña, equivalente a lo que, según la de Castilla, llamaban veedor. Intervenía las cuentas, los gastos, las libranzas, los cargos de alhajas y muebles, y ejercía otras funciones importantes.
- 3Funcionario que controla las cuentas, gastos y finanzas estatales.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontralor,cnotralor,conntralor,conrtalor,contarlor,contrallor,contralorr,contralro,contraolr,contrlaor,contrralor,conttralor,cotnralor,ocntralor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contralor
Misspelling Variants of "contralor"
Frequency rank: #27,165 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: