roscón de Reyes
The verdict
“roscón de Reyes” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Roscón elaborado con una masa dulce con forma de toroide adornado con rodajas de fruta confitada, escarchada, o cristalizada de colores variados. Puede rellenarse de nata montada o crema, en la act...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roscón de Reyes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [rosˈkõn̪ d̪e ˈreʝes] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roscón de Reyes” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for roscón de Reyes is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [rosˈkõn̪ d̪e ˈreʝes]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Roscón elaborado con una masa dulce con forma de toroide adornado con rodajas de fruta confitada, escarchada, o cristalizada de colores variados. Puede rellenarse de nata montada o crema, en la act...".
No misspelling variants are generated for roscón de Reyes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 roscón de Reyes, spelled R-O-S-C-Ó-N- -D-E- -R-E-Y-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roscón elaborado con una masa dulce con forma de toroide adornado con rodajas de fruta confitada, escarchada, o cristalizada de colores variados. Puede rellenarse de nata montada o crema, en la actualidad también de moca, trufa o chocolate, y se introducen en su interior sorpresas. Se sirve especialmente en la noche y día de Reyes (5 y 6 de enero de cada año).
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Using “roscón de Reyes”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-O-S-C-Ó-N- -D-E- -R-E-Y-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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