cuño
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#61,470
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cuño is aSpanishnoun. It means: Molde metálico con el que se estampan las monedas y medallas. Pronounced [ˈkuɲo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkuɲo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuño is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkuɲo]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,470 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cuño in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 cuño, spelled C-U-Ñ-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Molde metálico con el que se estampan las monedas y medallas.
- 2Señal en relieve que deja este molde.
- 3Pieza sólida en forma de cono o pirámide, usada para ensanchar una hendidura.
- 4Por extensión, formación militar que recuerda a esta figura.
- 5Por extensión, grupo grande de tropa o de personas en general.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #61,470 in Spanish
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