arroz
"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
- Aosta
Aosta
13,982 corpus weight
- Apollonia
Apollonia
13,981 corpus weight
- arpeggio
arpeggio
13,977 corpus weight
- arroz
arroz
13,976 corpus weight
- ARVN
ARVN
13,975 corpus weight
- Ashmolean
Ashmolean
13,972 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “arroz” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arroz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “arroz” in English
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
- 1Any Spanish rice-based dish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arroz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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