retoño
[reˈt̪oɲo]
The verdict
“retoño” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,199 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,199
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nuevo vástago o brote de una planta. Se refiere en particular a los brotes, hijuelos o sierpes generados desde las raíces.
Corpus desk
Index ES-retono · retoño · Spanish
retoño · rank #55,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,199
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH retardada
Nearest frequency peer: retardada (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “retoño”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- responsabil…
responsabilizó
44,805 corpus weight
- resurge
resurge
44,804 corpus weight
- retardada
retardada
44,803 corpus weight
- retoño
retoño
44,802 corpus weight
- retuerce
retuerce
44,800 corpus weight
- revendedores
revendedores
44,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “retoño” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retoño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reˈt̪oɲo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “retoño” en español
Rare enough to double-check
retoño is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,199 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [reˈt̪oɲo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for retoño in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is retoño, spelled R-E-T-O-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Nuevo vástago o brote de una planta. Se refiere en particular a los brotes, hijuelos o sierpes generados desde las raíces.
- 2Hijo o hija de alguien, especialmente si tiene pocos años.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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