saco
"saco" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“saco” is uncommon English (frequency #67,007 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,007
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 111 L.
Corpus desk
Index EN-saco · saco · English
saco · rank #67,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,007
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Ruthven
Nearest frequency peer: Ruthven (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “saco”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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32,995 corpus weight
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32,994 corpus weight
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32,990 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “saco” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saco |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “saco” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
saco is uncommon English at frequency #67,007 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 111 L.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for saco, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish saco (“a sack, a half-carga”), from Old Spanish saco, from Latin saccus, from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “sack, sackcloth”), from Semitic. Doublet of sac, saccus, sack, and sakkos. The correct English form is saco, spelled S-A-C-O.
Definition
- 1A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 111 L.
Etymology
From Spanish saco (“a sack, a half-carga”), from Old Spanish saco, from Latin saccus, from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “sack, sackcloth”), from Semitic. Doublet of sac, saccus, sack, and sakkos.
Synonyms
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.