lazareto
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#95,401
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
lazareto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hospital o instalación similar, más o menos aislada, en donde se tratan enfermedades contagiosas. Pronounced [lasaˈɾet̪o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lazareto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [lasaˈɾet̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lazareto is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lasaˈɾet̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,401 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for lazareto 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 lazareto, spelled L-A-Z-A-R-E-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hospital o instalación similar, más o menos aislada, en donde se tratan enfermedades contagiosas.
- 2Condición o estado de observación y aislamiento en que se mantiene a personas o cosas para garantizar que no son contagiosas.
- 3Hospital dedicado exclusivamente al tratamiento de los enfermos de lepra.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #95,401 in Spanish
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