ricino
[riˈsino]
The verdict
“ricino” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #65,695 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,695
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ricino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [riˈsino] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ricino” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ricino is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ricino, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is ricino, spelled R-I-C-I-N-O.
Definition
- 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.
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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Using “ricino”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-I-C-I-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [riˈsino] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.