morro
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,962
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
morro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Monte, cerro o peñasco pequeños. Pronounced [ˈmoro]. Often confused with muro and moto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmoro] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for morro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmoro]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,962 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for morro, with forms such as "mmorro", "moror", and "mroro". 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, "muro", "moto", "mozo", 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 morro, spelled M-O-R-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Monte, cerro o peñasco pequeños.
- 2Protuberancia, parte convexa o redondeada que sobresale.
- 3Piedra pequeña y lisa.
- 4Parte saliente de la cara de animales como el perro y el oso, donde están la nariz y la boca.
- 5Boca o labios de alguien, en especial si son protuberantes.
- 6Falta de respeto o de vergüenza.
- 7Abultamiento en el pantalón del hombre, donde se encuentra el órgano sexual y, por extensión, dicho órgano.
- 8Niño, persona de corta edad.
- 9Persona con preferencias no heterosexuales convencionales.^([cita requerida])
- 10(Crescentia cujete) Árbol de la familia de las bignoniáceas, originario de la zona intertropical de América.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmorro,moror,mroro,omrro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for morro
Misspelling Variants of "morro"
Frequency rank: #13,962 in Spanish
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