Arecibo
"arecibo" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Arecibo” is uncommon English (frequency #80,197 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,197
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city and municipality of Puerto Rico, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-arecibo · Arecibo · English
Arecibo · rank #80,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,197
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Aras
Nearest frequency peer: Aras (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Long-tail ranks near “Arecibo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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antihypertensive
19,810 corpus weight
- AO3
AO3
19,807 corpus weight
- Apus
Apus
19,806 corpus weight
- Aras
Aras
19,805 corpus weight
- Arecibo
Arecibo
19,804 corpus weight
- arnica
arnica
19,800 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Arecibo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arecibo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Arecibo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Arecibo is uncommon English at frequency #80,197 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Arecibo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish Arecibo, from Taíno Aresibo. The correct English form is Arecibo, spelled A-R-E-C-I-B-O.
Definition
- 1A city and municipality of Puerto Rico, United States.
- 2Ellipsis of Arecibo Observatory; a radio astronomy astronomical observatory located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
- 3A diocese in Puerto Rico, United States, of the Roman Catholic Church.
Etymology
From Spanish Arecibo, from Taíno Aresibo.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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