cortejo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,677
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cortejo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ritual por el que el macho trata de conseguir el favor sexual de una hembra. Pronounced [koɾˈt̪exo]. Often confused with corto and Cortés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cortejo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koɾˈt̪exo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cortejo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koɾˈt̪exo]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,677 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cortejo, with forms such as "ccortejo", "coretjo", and "corrtejo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "corto", "Cortés", "corten", 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 cortejo, spelled C-O-R-T-E-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ritual por el que el macho trata de conseguir el favor sexual de una hembra.
- 2Juego de seducción entre dos personas con la intención de conseguir realizar el acto sexual.
- 3Personas que forman el acompañamiento en una ceremonia.
- 4Persona que tiene relaciones amorosas con otra, y especialmente si éstas son ilícitas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccortejo,coretjo,corrtejo,cortejjo,corteoj,cortjeo,corttejo,cotrejo,crotejo,ocrtejo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cortejo
Misspelling Variants of "cortejo"
Frequency rank: #19,677 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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