rodeo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,476
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rodeo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de rodear. Pronounced [roˈð̞eo]. Often confused with roo and roe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rodeo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [roˈð̞eo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rodeo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [roˈð̞eo]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,476 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 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 rodeo, with forms such as "ordeo", "rdoeo", and "roddeo". 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, "roo", "roe", "rojo", 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 rodeo, spelled R-O-D-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de rodear.
- 2Camino más largo que el habitual, usado para evitar obstáculos o dificultades que presenta el camino más corto.
- 3Vuelta para escapar de un perseguidor.
- 4Forma indirecta de expresar las cosas, evitando ir directamente al grano.
- 5Respuesta evasiva para no contestar a una pregunta.
- 6Acción de juntar el ganado disperso en el campo.
- 7Lugar donde se reúne el ganado para llevarlo a los mercados.
- 8El corral, manguera o paraje limpio donde habitualmente se rejunta la hacienda para aquerenciarla y hacer las faenas rurales.
- 9Deporte ecuestre de Chile, establecido oficialmente como deporte nacional, que se rige por una estricta reglamentación y tiene lugar en un recinto deportivo llamado medialuna. Consiste en que dos jinetes, la collera, deben llevar un novillo a una zona llamada la atajada y detenerlo limpiamente con los caballos. Esta práctica nació como un juego derivado de las faenas agrícolas y lleva unos cuatro siglos de existencia. Hoy en día un millón de personas asiste a los rodeos, convirtiéndolo en uno de los deportes con más espectadores en Chile.
- 10Ceremonia y festejos para herrar los caballos, en algunos países de América.
- 11Deporte que consiste en montar a pelo potros salvajes, derribar con lazo al ganado vacuno y otros ejercicios ganaderos peligrosos.
- 12Siesta del ganado vacuno.
- 13Reunión de truhanes.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ordeo,rdoeo,roddeo,rodoe,roedo,rrodeo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rodeo
Misspelling Variants of "rodeo"
Frequency rank: #15,476 in Spanish
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