torno
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,097
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
torno is aSpanishnoun. It means: Máquina con una superficie rotatoria utilizada por el alfarero para modelar objetos. Pronounced [ˈt̪oɾno]. It ranks #2,097 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tro and toro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torno |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪oɾno] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for torno is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪oɾno]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,097 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for torno, with forms such as "otrno", "tonro", and "tornno". 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, "tro", "toro", "trío", 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 torno, spelled T-O-R-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Máquina con una superficie rotatoria utilizada por el alfarero para modelar objetos.
- 2Máquina herramienta que permite producir figuras de rotación mediante el rebaje de cuerpos cilíndricos.
- 3Máquina simple que convierte una fuerza de rotación en una fuerza lineal. Consiste en un cilindro que gira alrededor de su eje al cual se enrolla una cuerda.
- 4Taladro del dentista.
- 5Ventanilla giratoria a través de la cual los ocupantes de la clausura pueden intercambiar objetos con el exterior sin mantener contacto físico o visual.
- 6Aparato, normalmente parecido a un torno⁵, que impide la entrada de personas no autorizadas a un medio de transporte, espectáculo o edificio.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otrno,tonro,tornno,toron,torrno,ttorno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for torno
Misspelling Variants of "torno"
Frequency rank: #2,097 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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