terremoto
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,051
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
terremoto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Movimiento de la corteza terrestre causado por la liberación de tensiones acumuladas a lo largo de las fallas geológicas o por la actividad volcánica. Pronounced [t̪ereˈmot̪o]. It ranks #5,051 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with terremotos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terremoto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪ereˈmot̪o] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for terremoto is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪ereˈmot̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,051 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for terremoto, with forms such as "etrremoto", "teremoto", and "terermoto". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "terremotos", 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 terremoto, spelled T-E-R-R-E-M-O-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Movimiento de la corteza terrestre causado por la liberación de tensiones acumuladas a lo largo de las fallas geológicas o por la actividad volcánica.
- 2Movimiento telúrico que causa muerte y destrucción. En la escala modificada de Mercalli corresponde a un sismo grado 7 o superior. Los sismos de menor intensidad en Chile se denominan temblores.
- 3Bebida alcohólica fuerte mezcla de pipeño con helado de piña, servido en un vaso de medio litro.
- 4En el juego de cartas llamado canasta, acto de terminar el juego haciendo canasta y dejando al adversario, o rivales, con todas sus cartas en la mano.
- 5Dicho de un niño, sumamente travieso, inquieto o hiperactivo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etrremoto,teremoto,terermoto,terremmoto,terremoot,terremotto,terremtoo,terreomto,terrmeoto,treremoto,tterremoto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for terremoto
Misspelling Variants of "terremoto"
Frequency rank: #5,051 in Spanish
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