arco
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,609
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
arco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Arma elaborada a partir de una barra material elástico amarrada por ambos extremos a una cuerda la cual se utiliza para impulsar flechas. Pronounced [ˈaɾko]. It ranks #3,609 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with art and are.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɾko] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for arco is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɾko]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,609 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for arco, with forms such as "arcco", "aroc", and "arrco". 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, "art", "are", "aro", 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 arco, spelled A-R-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arma elaborada a partir de una barra material elástico amarrada por ambos extremos a una cuerda la cual se utiliza para impulsar flechas.
- 2Sección continua de una curva.
- 3Elemento que permite sustentar el peso de una construcción sobre un hueco practicado en un muro o sobre columnas exentas.
- 4Descarga eléctrica que se forma entre dos electrodos colocados en una atmósfera gaseosa.
- 5Vara utilizada para frotar de los instrumentos musicales de cuerda.
- 6Portería.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arcco,aroc,arrco,raco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arco
Misspelling Variants of "arco"
Frequency rank: #3,609 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: