corral
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,015
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
corral is aSpanishnoun. It means: Terreno cercado en que se mantienen animales domésticos. Pronounced [koˈral]. Often confused with Corta and corre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corral |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈral] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for corral is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈral]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,015 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for corral, with forms such as "ccorral", "corarl", and "corrall". 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, "Corta", "corre", "Corro", 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 corral, spelled C-O-R-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terreno cercado en que se mantienen animales domésticos.
- 2El cerco que delimita un corral₁.
- 3Cerco móvil de poca altura, con piso acolchado, dentro del cual se deja a los niños pequeños, para evitar que se alejen de quienes los cuidan o se expongan a peligros.
- 4Trampa para peces formada por una pared circular semejante a un corral₁ hecha en la zona intermareal o por un cerco atravesado en a lo ancho de cuerpo de agua. Los peces entran al corral durante las horas de marea alta y quedan atrapados cuando el agua se retira.
- 5Anfiteatro, circo de montañas con nieves eternas.
- 6Patio sin techo o casa en que se hacían representaciones de teatro.
- 7Campo pequeño destinado a la agricultura o ganadería.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorral,corarl,corrall,corrla,croral,ocrral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corral
Misspelling Variants of "corral"
Frequency rank: #11,015 in Spanish
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