encierro
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,682
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
encierro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de encerrar o encerrarse. Pronounced [ẽnˈsjero]. Often confused with enterró and entierro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encierro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽnˈsjero] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for encierro is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽnˈsjero]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,682 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for encierro, with forms such as "ecnierro", "enccierro", and "enceirro". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "enterró", "entierro", "entierra", 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 encierro, spelled E-N-C-I-E-R-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de encerrar o encerrarse.
- 2Medida de protesta consistente en encerrarse en un lugar, negándose a salir fuera de él.
- 3Lugar en el que alguien se encierra.
- 4Fiesta popular en el que los toros son llevados en persecución de corredores por un recorrido fijado hasta la plaza donde serán lidiados.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnierro,enccierro,enceirro,enciero,encieror,encirero,enicerro,enncierro,ensierro,necierro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for encierro
Misspelling Variants of "encierro"
Frequency rank: #17,682 in Spanish
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