correo electrónico

/[koˈreo elekˈt̪ɾoniko]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

correo electrónico is aSpanishphrase. It means: Sistema de comunicación electrónico. Pronounced [koˈreo elekˈt̪ɾoniko].

Key facts for correo electrónico
PropertyValue
Headwordcorreo electrónico
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[koˈreo elekˈt̪ɾoniko]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

correo electrónico is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for correo electrónico is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈreo elekˈt̪ɾoniko]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for correo electrónico in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 correo electrónico, spelled C-O-R-R-E-O- -E-L-E-C-T-R-Ó-N-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sistema de comunicación electrónico.
  2. 2
    Mensaje transmitido a través del sistema de comunicación electrónico.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "correo electrónico"?
"correo electrónico" is spelled C-O-R-R-E-O- -E-L-E-C-T-R-Ó-N-I-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is [koˈreo elekˈt̪ɾoniko].
What does "correo electrónico" mean?
As a phrase, "correo electrónico" means: Sistema de comunicación electrónico.
How do you pronounce "correo electrónico"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "correo electrónico" is [koˈreo elekˈt̪ɾoniko]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "correo electrónico" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.