torito
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,320
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
torito is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Columbina picui). Ave columbiforme nativa de América del Sur. Es abundante desde Colombia hasta el sur de Argentina y Chile. Su plumaje es poco vistoso; muestra la cabeza grisácea y el dorso gris ... Pronounced [t̪oˈɾit̪o]. Often confused with toro and trío.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torito |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪oˈɾit̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for torito is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪oˈɾit̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,320 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for torito, with forms such as "otrito", "toirto", and "toriot". 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, "toro", "trío", "toto", 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 torito, spelled T-O-R-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Columbina picui). Ave columbiforme nativa de América del Sur. Es abundante desde Colombia hasta el sur de Argentina y Chile. Su plumaje es poco vistoso; muestra la cabeza grisácea y el dorso gris a castaño. La garganta tiene un collar blanquecino. Las alas son pardogrisáceas, con motas negras o azul muy oscuro; abiertas al volar se distinguen dos bandas negras y una blanca. La cola muestra una orla blanca bien visible.
- 2Baile tradicional del norte chileno, en el que dos hombres simulan darse cornadas.
- 3Diminutivo de toro
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otrito,toirto,toriot,toritto,torrito,tortio,troito,ttorito
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Misspelling Variants of "torito"
Frequency rank: #49,320 in Spanish
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