cuerpo

/[ˈkweɾpo]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#369

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

cuerpo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte material de un ser humano o de un animal. Pronounced [ˈkweɾpo]. It ranks #369 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cupo and curo.

Key facts for cuerpo
PropertyValue
Headwordcuerpo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkweɾpo]
Letters6
Frequency rank#369
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cuerpo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cuerpo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkweɾpo]. Corpus data places it at rank #369 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 22 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 cuerpo, with forms such as "ccuerpo", "ceurpo", and "cuepro". 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, "cupo", "curo", "curso", 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 cuerpo, spelled C-U-E-R-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Parte material de un ser humano o de un animal.
  2. 2
    Persona difunta.
  3. 3
    Estructura algebraica que cumple con determinadas condiciones, pero sobre todo con la ley de cierre.
  4. 4
    Parte principal de un objeto.
  5. 5
    En el humano o animal, su torso, excluyendo las extremidades.
  6. 6
    Un objeto físico que tiene masa.
  7. 7
    Conjunto de cosas, personas o ideas.
  8. 8
    Tamaño en puntos, picas o cíceros, de un tipo gráfico.
  9. 9
    En una prenda de vestir, la parte que cubre el tronco.
  10. 10
    Longitud del cuerpo de un caballo.
  11. 11
    Conjunto de personas que desempeñan una misma profesión o actividad.
  12. 12
    Conjunto de soldados bajo un mando común.
  13. 13
    Parte de un ejército cuya labor no es el combate, sino una tarea auxiliar determinada.
  14. 14
    Cada libro encuadernado por separado.
  15. 15
    Parte principal del libro, sin incluir títulos, índices, prefacios, etc.
  16. 16
    En un objeto en el cual se pueden separar sus partes en varias de similar tamaño o importancia, cada una de estas partes.
  17. 17
    En las salsas, sopas y otros productos culinarios líquidos, consistencia, densidad que adquiere con la cocción o el batido.
  18. 18
    Hablando de un vino, características organolépticas agradablemte pronunciadas.
  19. 19
    Conjunto de leyes.
  20. 20
    Espesor de tejidos y otros materiales planos.
  21. 21
    Volumen o tamaño de alguna cosa.
  22. 22
    En una vela japonesa, el segmento más interno que indica para un período el valor de apertura y el valor de cierre para las acciones de un determinado mercado.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccuerpo,ceurpo,cuepro,cuerop,cuerppo,cuerrpo,curepo,ucerpo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuerpo

Misspelling Variants of "cuerpo"

ccuerpo7ceurpo6cuepro6cuerop6cuerppo7cuerrpo7curepo6ucerpo6
Misspelling Variants of "cuerpo"

Frequency rank: #369 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cuerpo"?
"cuerpo" is spelled C-U-E-R-P-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkweɾpo].
What does "cuerpo" mean?
As a noun, "cuerpo" means: Parte material de un ser humano o de un animal.
What words are commonly confused with "cuerpo"?
"cuerpo" is commonly confused with "cupo", "curo", "curso". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cuerpo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cuerpo" is [ˈkweɾpo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cuerpo" come from?
"cuerpo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.