involucro

[ĩmboˈlukɾo]

/[ĩmboˈlukɾo]/ noun

The verdict

“involucro” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #58,617 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.

#58,617
frequency rank, Spanish
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Conjunto de brácteas situadas a la misma altura, en la base de una inflorescencia como un capítulo o una umbela. Antes de abrirse un capítulo, las florecitas están protegidas por una especie de bot...

Key facts for involucro
PropertyValue
Headwordinvolucro
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ĩmboˈlukɾo]
Letters9
Frequency rank#58,617
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “involucro” sits in Spanish frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). involucro lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for involucro is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmboˈlukɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,617 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conjunto de brácteas situadas a la misma altura, en la base de una inflorescencia como un capítulo o una umbela. Antes de abrirse un capítulo, las florecitas están protegidas por una especie de bot...".

No misspelling variants are generated for involucro in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 involucro, spelled I-N-V-O-L-U-C-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Conjunto de brácteas situadas a la misma altura, en la base de una inflorescencia como un capítulo o una umbela. Antes de abrirse un capítulo, las florecitas están protegidas por una especie de botón floral formado por el involucro.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "involucro"?
"involucro" is spelled I-N-V-O-L-U-C-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩmboˈlukɾo].
What does "involucro" mean?
As a noun, "involucro" means: Conjunto de brácteas situadas a la misma altura, en la base de una inflorescencia como un capítulo o una umbela. Antes de abrirse un capítulo, las florecitas están protegidas por una especie de bot...
How do you pronounce "involucro"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "involucro" is [ĩmboˈlukɾo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “involucro”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is I-N-V-O-L-U-C-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ĩmboˈlukɾo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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