crótalo
[ˈkɾot̪alo]
The verdict
“crótalo” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Especie de castañuela formada por dos pequeños platillos metálicos, que se sujetan a los dedos de la mano y se hacen sonar entrechocándolos, usados en la antigua Grecia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-crotalo · crótalo · Spanish
crótalo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | crótalo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɾot̪alo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “crótalo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
crótalo is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɾot̪alo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crótalo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is crótalo, spelled C-R-Ó-T-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1Especie de castañuela formada por dos pequeños platillos metálicos, que se sujetan a los dedos de la mano y se hacen sonar entrechocándolos, usados en la antigua Grecia.
- 2Castañuela.
- 3(Crotalinae) Serpiente de cascabel.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.