coronado
\ko.ɾoˈna.ðo\
The verdict
“coronado” is uncommon French (frequency #64,341 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,341
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de coronar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coronado |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ko.ɾoˈna.ðo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coronado” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
coronado is uncommon French at frequency #64,341 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ko.ɾoˈna.ðo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de coronar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coronado, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is coronado, spelled C-O-R-O-N-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de coronar.
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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Using “coronado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-R-O-N-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ko.ɾoˈna.ðo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.