lauro
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,925
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lauro is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Laurus nobilis) Árbol lauráceo de hojas olorosas y madera resistente, considerado símbolo de victoria entre los antiguos griegos y romanos y usado en la cocina como especia. Pronounced [ˈlawɾo]. Often confused with lujo and Lugo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lauro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlawɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lauro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlawɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,925 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for lauro, with forms such as "aluro", "laruo", and "lauor". 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, "lujo", "Lugo", "lazo", 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 lauro, spelled L-A-U-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Laurus nobilis) Árbol lauráceo de hojas olorosas y madera resistente, considerado símbolo de victoria entre los antiguos griegos y romanos y usado en la cocina como especia.
- 2Premio en forma de corona hecho con dos ramas trenzadas de lauro₁
- 3Por extensión, reconocimiento generalizado de las virtudes y el mérito de una persona.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aluro,laruo,lauor,laurro,llauro,luaro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lauro
Misspelling Variants of "lauro"
Frequency rank: #40,925 in Spanish
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