cuero
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,486
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cuero is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pellejo grueso y duro que cubre la carne de algunos animales. Pronounced [ˈkweɾo]. It ranks #5,486 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cuyo and culo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkweɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuero is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkweɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,486 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuero, with forms such as "ccuero", "ceuro", and "cueor". 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, "cuyo", "culo", "cura", 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 cuero, spelled C-U-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pellejo grueso y duro que cubre la carne de algunos animales.
- 2Material elástico y resistente obtenido depués de tratar el cuero₁ de los animales.
- 3Epidermis de las frutas, raíces y tubérculos.
- 4Criatura de la mitología mapuche; su aspecto es semejante al de un cuero de animal por el dorso y con una gran boca y garras por su parte inferior. Es un carnívoro que envuelve a humanos y animales desprevenidos para llevárselos debajo de la superficie y devorarlos. Habita en ríos y lagos.
- 5Prostituta.
- 6Castigo físico consistente en azotes con cinturón.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuero,ceuro,cueor,cuerro,cureo,ucero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuero
Misspelling Variants of "cuero"
Frequency rank: #5,486 in Spanish
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