paco
/ˈpɑːkəʊ/noun
paco is a noun meaning “An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-C-O and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Paco, the name). The plural of paco is pacos or pacoes.
What does paco mean?
noun
- 1
archaicAn alpaca.
- 2
An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce paco?
- /ˈpɑːkəʊ/
Paco has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-paco.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of paco
- pacos plural
- pacoes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paco?
Paco appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,270th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Paco, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does paco come from?
From Spanish paco.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).