ricino

/[riˈsino]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#65,695

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ricino is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Ricinus communis) Planta arbustiva de la familia Euphorbiaceae. Es originaria de África tropical, alrededor de Etiopía, pero se ha naturalizado en áreas tropicales y subtropicales de todo el mundo... Pronounced [riˈsino].

Key facts for ricino
PropertyValue
Headwordricino
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[riˈsino]
Letters6
Frequency rank#65,695
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ricino is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [riˈsino]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,695 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Ricinus communis) Planta arbustiva de la familia Euphorbiaceae. Es originaria de África tropical, alrededor de Etiopía, pero se ha naturalizado en áreas tropicales y subtropicales de todo el mundo...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ricino 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 ricino, spelled R-I-C-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Ricinus communis) Planta arbustiva de la familia Euphorbiaceae. Es originaria de África tropical, alrededor de Etiopía, pero se ha naturalizado en áreas tropicales y subtropicales de todo el mundo convirtiéndose en una maleza invasora. Produce gran cantidad de semillas altamente viables y sumamente venenosas. Se calcula que tan solo cuatro semillas pueden matar a un adulto de tamaño medio. Sin embargo, de esta planta se pueden extraer compuestos anticancerígenos y el aceite de ricino, que es comestible, mediante un proceso de separación del aceite. También es una especie ornamental preferida en jardines.

Frequency rank: #65,695 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ricino"?
"ricino" is spelled R-I-C-I-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [riˈsino].
What does "ricino" mean?
As a noun, "ricino" means: (Ricinus communis) Planta arbustiva de la familia Euphorbiaceae. Es originaria de África tropical, alrededor de Etiopía, pero se ha naturalizado en áreas tropicales y subtropicales de todo el mundo...
How do you pronounce "ricino"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ricino" is [riˈsino]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.