arroz

noun

"arroz" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“arroz” is uncommon English (frequency #86,025 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,025
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any Spanish rice-based dish.

Corpus desk

Index EN-arroz · arroz · English

arroz · rank #86,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,025
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH arpeggio

Nearest frequency peer: arpeggio (-1 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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 “arroz”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “arroz” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for arroz
PropertyValue
Headwordarroz
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#86,025
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “arroz” in English

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).arrozfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Rare peers in the same band: “arpeggio” (#86,024), “ARVN” (#86,026), “Ashmolean” (#86,029). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “arroz” is #86,025. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

arroz is uncommon English at frequency #86,025 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any Spanish rice-based dish.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for arroz, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Iranian *wrinǰišder. Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza)bor. Arabic رُزّ (ruzz) Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz) Andalusian Arabic روزder. Spanish arrozbor. English arroz Borrowed from Spanish arroz, from Andalusian Arabic روز, from Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz),… The correct English form is arroz, spelled A-R-R-O-Z.

Definition

  1. 1
    Any Spanish rice-based dish.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how arroz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Reliable, traditional bar-restaurant for dishes of the sierra including […] arrozes (rice dishes).

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Iranian *wrinǰišder. Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza)bor. Arabic رُزّ (ruzz) Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz) Andalusian Arabic روزder. Spanish arrozbor. English arroz Borrowed from Spanish arroz, from Andalusian Arabic روز, from Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz), from رُزّ (ruzz), borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from Proto-Iranian *wrinǰiš. Doublet of rice.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arroz"?
"arroz" is spelled A-R-R-O-Z.
What does "arroz" mean?
As a noun, "arroz" means: Any Spanish rice-based dish.
What is the origin of the word "arroz"?
Etymology tree Proto-Iranian *wrinǰišder. Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza)bor. Arabic رُزّ (ruzz) Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz) Andalusian Arabic روزder. Spanish arrozbor. English arroz Borrowed from Spanish arroz, from Andalusian Arabic روز, from Arabic *رَوْ... See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "arroz", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list