poroto
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,380
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
poroto is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Planta herbácea anual de la familia de la fabáceas, originaria de América. Sus hojas están compuestas por tres foliolos de forma ovalada o romboide, algunas veces cubiertos ... Pronounced [poˈɾot̪o]. Often confused with port and poto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poroto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [poˈɾot̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for poroto is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poˈɾot̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,380 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 poroto, with forms such as "poroot", "porotto", and "porroto". 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, "port", "poto", "porto", 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 poroto, spelled P-O-R-O-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Planta herbácea anual de la familia de la fabáceas, originaria de América. Sus hojas están compuestas por tres foliolos de forma ovalada o romboide, algunas veces cubiertos de vellosidades. tallos delgados, las flores son zigomorfas, con colores que varían del blanco al púrpura. El fruto es una vaina o legumbre con varias semillas en su interior. Tanto el fruto como la semilla son comestibles.
- 2La semilla comestible de la planta de poroto₁, con dos grandes cotiledones de forma arriñonada y color muy variable.
- 3Guiso preparado con esta legumbre o con sus semillas cocidas.
- 4Niño pequeño.
- 5Pequeño bulto anómalo en el cuerpo, que se puede palpar o que resalta bajo la piel, tal como un grano, un quiste o un tumorcillo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: poroot,porotto,porroto,portoo,pporoto,prooto
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Misspelling Variants of "poroto"
Frequency rank: #44,380 in Spanish
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