cerro
\ˈse.ro\
The verdict
“cerro” is uncommon French (frequency #55,805 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,805
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colline, coteau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cerro · cerro · French
cerro · rank #55,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,805
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cendrée
Nearest frequency peer: cendrée (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cerro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cem
cem
44,198 corpus weight
- cendrée
cendrée
44,197 corpus weight
- cerro
cerro
44,196 corpus weight
- cervelet
cervelet
44,195 corpus weight
- chamade
chamade
44,194 corpus weight
- chamboulée
chamboulée
44,193 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cerro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈse.ro\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cerro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cerro is uncommon French at frequency #55,805 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈse.ro\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Colline, coteau.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cerro, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cerro, spelled C-E-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1Colline, coteau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cerro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No hay dos cerros iguales, pero en cualquier lugar de la tierra la llanura es una y la misma.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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