ratero
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,650
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
ratero is anSpanishadj. It means: Persona que tiene por costumbre el apropiarse de cosas que no le pertenecen. Pronounced [raˈt̪eɾo]. Often confused with rato and retro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [raˈt̪eɾo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ratero is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [raˈt̪eɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,650 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for ratero, with forms such as "artero", "raetro", and "rateor". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "rato", "retro", "ratio", 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 ratero, spelled R-A-T-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona que tiene por costumbre el apropiarse de cosas que no le pertenecen.
- 2Trampa para cazar ratas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: artero,raetro,rateor,raterro,ratreo,rattero,rratero,rtaero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ratero
Misspelling Variants of "ratero"
Frequency rank: #42,650 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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