pandero

/[pãn̪ˈd̪eɾo]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#90,190

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pandero is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento de percusión formado por un aro de madera o metal cubierto de un parche por uno o ambos lados, y dotado de cascabeles. Pronounced [pãn̪ˈd̪eɾo].

Key facts for pandero
PropertyValue
Headwordpandero
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pãn̪ˈd̪eɾo]
Letters7
Frequency rank#90,190
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pandero in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pandero is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pãn̪ˈd̪eɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,190 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pandero in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 pandero, spelled P-A-N-D-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrumento de percusión formado por un aro de madera o metal cubierto de un parche por uno o ambos lados, y dotado de cascabeles.
  2. 2
    Artificio volador utilizado como entretenimiento, que consta de una superficie de papel, tela u otro material liviano montada sobre una armazón sólida de caña y sujetada a un hilo por la parte inferior.
  3. 3
    Persona locuaz y tonta.
  4. 4
    Conjunto de la musculatura de la parte posterior de la cadera.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #90,190 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pandero"?
"pandero" is spelled P-A-N-D-E-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is [pãn̪ˈd̪eɾo].
What does "pandero" mean?
As a noun, "pandero" means: Instrumento de percusión formado por un aro de madera o metal cubierto de un parche por uno o ambos lados, y dotado de cascabeles.
How do you pronounce "pandero"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pandero" is [pãn̪ˈd̪eɾo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pandero" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.