cuartel
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,709
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
cuartel is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lugar e instalaciones en los que se asienta un regimiento militar, durante la campaña o fuera de ésta. Pronounced [kwaɾˈt̪el]. It ranks #5,709 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cuarto and cuartos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuartel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kwaɾˈt̪el] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuartel is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kwaɾˈt̪el]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,709 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuartel, with forms such as "caurtel", "ccuartel", and "cuaretl". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "cuarto", "cuartos", "cuarteto", 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 cuartel, spelled C-U-A-R-T-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lugar e instalaciones en los que se asienta un regimiento militar, durante la campaña o fuera de ésta.
- 2Conjunto de edificios que proporcionan alojamiento y otras facilidades a un regimiento.
- 3Tributo que solía pagarse para financiar estas instalaciones.
- 4Libertades y favores que se dan a un enemigo vencido.
- 5Sección resultante de dividir una unidad en cuatro partes iguales.
- 6Sección administrativa en que se dividen algunas ciudades.
- 7En general, sección o porción de terreno asignada a un propósito.
- 8Diseño de jardinería, con macizos de flores o hierbas marcando cuadros.
- 9Cada una de las secciones del emblema de un escudo que esté dividido en cuatro.
- 10Por extensión, cada una de las áreas en que se divide un escudo.
- 11Portezuela desmontable que se aplica a las escotillas y almenas de un buque para cerrarlas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: caurtel,ccuartel,cuaretl,cuarrtel,cuartell,cuartle,cuarttel,cuatrel,curatel,ucartel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuartel
Misspelling Variants of "cuartel"
Frequency rank: #5,709 in Spanish
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