potro
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,940
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
potro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cría joven del caballo. Pronounced [ˈpot̪ɾo]. Often confused with pro and puro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpot̪ɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for potro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpot̪ɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,940 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 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 potro, with forms such as "optro", "potor", and "potrro". 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, "pro", "puro", "puto", 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 potro, spelled P-O-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cría joven del caballo.
- 2Jaula o estructura usada para inmovilizar al ganado para herrarlo o tratarlo. Por extensión, encerrado.
- 3Instrumento de tortura, en que una polea tira de los miembros de la víctima para descoyuntarlos.
- 4Por extensión, cosa molesta o gravosa.
- 5Aparato de gimnasia, a modo de un tablón sobre patas, forrado de material acolchado, sobre el cual el gimnasta realiza los ejercicios.
- 6Prueba gimnástica realizada sobre este aparato.
- 7Sillón con estribos usado para la revisión ginecológica y el parto.
- 8Hombre físicamente atractivo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: optro,potor,potrro,pottro,ppotro,ptoro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for potro
Misspelling Variants of "potro"
Frequency rank: #18,940 in Spanish
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