ancho
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,533
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ancho is anSpanishadj. It means: Que tiene cierta anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana). Pronounced [ˈãnʲt͡ʃo]. It ranks #3,533 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with año and asco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ancho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈãnʲt͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ancho is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈãnʲt͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,533 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 ancho, with forms such as "acnho", "anccho", and "anchho". 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, "año", "asco", "arco", 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 ancho, spelled A-N-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que tiene cierta anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana).
- 2Que tiene mucha o excesiva anchura.
- 3Que es bastante más amplio que aquello que normalmente contiene; holgado.
- 4Que tiene considerable espacio, amplio.
- 5Que se expresa o se desenvuelve con libertad, sin inhibición o sin grandes limitaciones.
- 6Dicho de una norma, que no es muy estricta o limitante; que da espacio a la libertad.
- 7Que tiene gran tamaño, intensidad, importancia o impacto.
- 8Que se ufana o muestra una actitud de soberbia, vanidad o excesiva confianza en sí mismo/a.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnho,anccho,anchho,ancoh,anhco,anncho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ancho
Misspelling Variants of "ancho"
Frequency rank: #3,533 in Spanish
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