verraco
The verdict
“verraco” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cerdo macho adulto empleado como reproductor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verraco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [beˈrako] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “verraco” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for verraco is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [beˈrako]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for verraco in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 verraco, spelled V-E-R-R-A-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cerdo macho adulto empleado como reproductor.
- 2Estatua de piedra que se encuentra en las provincias de Cáceres, Salamanca, Ávila y Toledo de la época de los vetones (hacia el siglo V a.C.), cuya utilidad no está muy clara. Tiene la forma y el tamaño de un toro, y está relacionado con la cultura celta.
- 3Persona ruda y rústica.
- 4Persona sucia, desaliñada o grosera.
- 5Persona ruin, inmoral o falta de vergüenza.
- 6Persona con ansias desatadas de procreación.
This word in other languages
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Using “verraco”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-E-R-R-A-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [beˈrako] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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