cuerno
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,792
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cuerno is aSpanishnoun. It means: Protuberancia queratinosa que muestran algunos animales en la cabeza; muchos artiodáctilos las tienen por pares a ambos lados de la testa, a veces desnuda y en otros recubierta de una fina piel, mi... Pronounced [ˈkweɾno]. Often confused with curo and curso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuerno |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkweɾno] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuerno is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkweɾno]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,792 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuerno, with forms such as "ccuerno", "ceurno", and "cuenro". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "curo", "curso", "cuero", 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 cuerno, spelled C-U-E-R-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Protuberancia queratinosa que muestran algunos animales en la cabeza; muchos artiodáctilos las tienen por pares a ambos lados de la testa, a veces desnuda y en otros recubierta de una fina piel, mientras que los rinocerontes presentan una o dos en el centro de la frente.
- 2Material del que estos cuernos se componen, usado en pequeñas manufacturas.
- 3Cualquiera de varios instrumentos musicales de viento, similares a una trompeta de cuerpo corvo.
- 4Cosa u objeto insignificante.
- 5Infidelidad matrimonial.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuerno,ceurno,cuenro,cuernno,cueron,cuerrno,cureno,ucerno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuerno
Misspelling Variants of "cuerno"
Frequency rank: #12,792 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: