cuervo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,552
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cuervo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (familia Corvidae) Cualquiera de más de un centenar de especies de aves paseriformes, de distribución cosmopolita, de tamaño medio a grande, robusto pico y patas, hábito sedentario y alimentación o... Pronounced [ˈkweɾβ̞o]. Often confused with curo and curso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuervo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkweɾβ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuervo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkweɾβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,552 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuervo, with forms such as "ccuervo", "ceurvo", and "cuerbo". 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", "cueva", 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 cuervo, spelled C-U-E-R-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(familia Corvidae) Cualquiera de más de un centenar de especies de aves paseriformes, de distribución cosmopolita, de tamaño medio a grande, robusto pico y patas, hábito sedentario y alimentación omnívora, especialmente carroñera.
- 2(Corvus corax) En particular, aquella más extendida, de hasta 65 cm de largo y más de 1 kg de peso, plumaje negro e inteligencia especialmente desarrollada.
- 3(Cathartes aura) Ave falconiforme americana, de aspecto similar a los buitres pero emparentada con el [cóndor], de hasta 3 kg de peso y 2 m de envergadura de alas, color castaño a negro, con el interior de las remeras gris, cabeza pelada y pequeña en relación al cuerpo.
- 4(Phalacrocorax brasilianus) Ave marina de la familia Phalacrocoracidae que habita las costas americanas.
- 5Sacerdote católico.
- 6Persona que ejerce la abogacía.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuervo,ceurvo,cuerbo,cuerov,cuerrvo,cuervvo,cuevro,curevo,ucervo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuervo
Misspelling Variants of "cuervo"
Frequency rank: #11,552 in Spanish
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