lazareto
[lasaˈɾet̪o]
The verdict
“lazareto” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #95,401 among 2,069 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,401
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hospital o instalación similar, más o menos aislada, en donde se tratan enfermedades contagiosas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lazareto · lazareto · Spanish
lazareto · rank #95,401 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,401
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH lastimosa
Nearest frequency peer: lastimosa (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “lazareto”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- laine
laine
4,606 corpus weight
- lambo
lambo
4,605 corpus weight
- lanudo
lanudo
4,603 corpus weight
- lastimosa
lastimosa
4,602 corpus weight
- lazareto
lazareto
4,600 corpus weight
- Legarreta
Legarreta
4,597 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “lazareto” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “lazareto” en español
Rare enough to double-check
lazareto is uncommon Spanish at frequency #95,401 among 2,069 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [lasaˈɾet̪o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
lazareto doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is lazareto, spelled L-A-Z-A-R-E-T-O.
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
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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