cuarteto
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,806
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
cuarteto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de cuatro personas o cosas. Pronounced [kwaɾˈt̪et̪o]. Often confused with cuarto and cuartel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuarteto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kwaɾˈt̪et̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuarteto is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kwaɾˈt̪et̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,806 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuarteto, with forms such as "caurteto", "ccuarteto", and "cuaretto". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cuarto", "cuartel", "cartero", 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 cuarteto, spelled C-U-A-R-T-E-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de cuatro personas o cosas.
- 2Pieza compuesta para cuatro instrumentos o a cuatro voces.
- 3Grupo de ejecutantes con cuatro instrumentos o voces.
- 4Estrofa o poema de cuatro versos, tradicionalmente de más de ocho sílabas o endecasílabos cada uno (arte mayor), con rima abrazada (el primero con el cuatro y el segundo con el tercero).
- 5Género musical oriundo de Córdoba, Argentina, de tempo movido y con influencia de ritmos italianos (tarantela) y españoles (pasodoble).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: caurteto,ccuarteto,cuaretto,cuarrteto,cuarteot,cuartetto,cuartteo,cuartteto,cuatreto,curateto,ucarteto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuarteto
Misspelling Variants of "cuarteto"
Frequency rank: #14,806 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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