sorgo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,158
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sorgo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Sorghum spp.) Cualquiera de una veintena de especies de plantas herbáceas, anuales a perennes, de la familia de las poáceas, de raíz extensa y ramificada que lo hace resistente a la sequía, tallo ... Pronounced [ˈsoɾɣ̞o]. Often confused with soto and soso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sorgo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsoɾɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sorgo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsoɾɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,158 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sorgo, with forms such as "osrgo", "sogro", and "sorggo". 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, "soto", "soso", "surge", 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 sorgo, spelled S-O-R-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Sorghum spp.) Cualquiera de una veintena de especies de plantas herbáceas, anuales a perennes, de la familia de las poáceas, de raíz extensa y ramificada que lo hace resistente a la sequía, tallo cilíndrico de hasta 4 m de altura rematado por una inflorescencia en panoja, y fruto en cariópside. S. bicolor se cultiva por su grano desde la Antigüedad, y otras especies se emplean para forraje
- 2Grano del sorgo₁, en especial el del sorgo común, usado como alimento para elaborar harina o bebidas fermentadas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osrgo,sogro,sorggo,sorog,sorrgo,srogo,ssorgo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sorgo
Misspelling Variants of "sorgo"
Frequency rank: #42,158 in Spanish
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