cornezuelo
[koɾneˈswelo]
The verdict
“cornezuelo” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Claviceps purpurea) Hongo ascomicete parásito de las espigas de cereales como el centeno, la cebada, el trigo y la avena, cuya ingestión provoca la enfermedad llamada ergotismo o fuego de San Anto...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cornezuelo · cornezuelo · Spanish
cornezuelo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornezuelo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koɾneˈswelo] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cornezuelo” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cornezuelo is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [koɾneˈswelo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cornezuelo, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cornezuelo, spelled C-O-R-N-E-Z-U-E-L-O.
Definition
- 1(Claviceps purpurea) Hongo ascomicete parásito de las espigas de cereales como el centeno, la cebada, el trigo y la avena, cuya ingestión provoca la enfermedad llamada ergotismo o fuego de San Antonio. Se ha usado como alucinógeno y contra los dolores uterinos. Produce el alcaloide ácido lisérgico, con el que el químico suizo Albert Hofman fabricó la dietilamida del ácido lisérgico: el LSD.
- 2Variedad de aceituna con forma de cuerno.
- 3Variedad de aceituna larga terminada en punta.
- 4Instrumento que usaron los veterinarios para separar tejidos, hecho con la punta de un cuerno de ciervo.
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