tarugo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#91,428
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tarugo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pedazo de madera que sirve para apretar las ensambladuras de los maderos, haciendo oficios de llave. Pronounced [t̪aˈɾuɣ̞o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tarugo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪aˈɾuɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tarugo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪aˈɾuɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #91,428 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tarugo 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 tarugo, spelled T-A-R-U-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pedazo de madera que sirve para apretar las ensambladuras de los maderos, haciendo oficios de llave.
- 2Taco generalmente plástico, para asegurar tornillos.
- 3Golosina agridulce hecha con tamarindo, chile, sal o azúcar, generalmente de forma cilíndrica, aunque también pueden ser de forma esférica u oblonga.
Frequency rank: #91,428 in Spanish
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