ácaro

/[ˈakaɾo]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ácaro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Género de arácnidos de respiración traqueal o cutánea, con cefalotórax íntimamente unido al abdomen. Esta denominación comprende animales de tamaño mediano o pequeño, muchos de los cuales son parás... Pronounced [ˈakaɾo].

Key facts for ácaro
PropertyValue
Headwordácaro
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈakaɾo]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ácaro is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ácaro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈakaɾo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Género de arácnidos de respiración traqueal o cutánea, con cefalotórax íntimamente unido al abdomen. Esta denominación comprende animales de tamaño mediano o pequeño, muchos de los cuales son parás...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ácaro in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is ácaro, spelled Á-C-A-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Género de arácnidos de respiración traqueal o cutánea, con cefalotórax íntimamente unido al abdomen. Esta denominación comprende animales de tamaño mediano o pequeño, muchos de los cuales son parásitos de otros animales o plantas.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ácaro"?
"ácaro" is spelled Á-C-A-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈakaɾo].
What does "ácaro" mean?
As a noun, "ácaro" means: Género de arácnidos de respiración traqueal o cutánea, con cefalotórax íntimamente unido al abdomen. Esta denominación comprende animales de tamaño mediano o pequeño, muchos de los cuales son parás...
How do you pronounce "ácaro"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ácaro" is [ˈakaɾo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ácaro" come from?
"ácaro" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.