acoso

/[aˈkoso]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,364

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

acoso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de acosar. Pronounced [aˈkoso]. It ranks #5,364 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with aso and años.

Key facts for acoso
PropertyValue
Headwordacoso
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈkoso]
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,364
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of acoso in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for acoso is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈkoso]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,364 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for acoso, with forms such as "accoso", "acoos", and "acosso". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aso", "años", "acto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 acoso, spelled A-C-O-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acción o efecto de acosar.
  2. 2
    Persecución o molestia sin descanso a una persona para lograr un fin.
  3. 3
    Persecución a alguno con molestias insistentes.
  4. 4
    Persecución a caballo de una res, generalmente previa a un derribo, y prueba de la fiereza de la misma.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: accoso,acoos,acosso,acsoo,aocso,caoso

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for acoso

Misspelling Variants of "acoso"

accoso6acoos5acosso6acsoo5aocso5caoso5
Misspelling Variants of "acoso"

Frequency rank: #5,364 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acoso"?
"acoso" is spelled A-C-O-S-O. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈkoso].
What does "acoso" mean?
As a noun, "acoso" means: Acción o efecto de acosar.
What words are commonly confused with "acoso"?
"acoso" is commonly confused with "aso", "años", "acto". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "acoso"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acoso" is [aˈkoso]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acoso" come from?
"acoso" 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.