Argos
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,877
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Argos is aSpanishname. It means: Ciudad del Peloponeso, cerca del golfo de Nauplia, antigua capital de la Argólide. Pronounced [ˈaɾɣ̞os]. Often confused with aro and ars.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Argos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [ˈaɾɣ̞os] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Argos is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɾɣ̞os]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,877 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Argos, with forms such as "agros", "arggos", and "argoss". 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, "aro", "ars", "Aros", 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 Argos, spelled A-R-G-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ciudad del Peloponeso, cerca del golfo de Nauplia, antigua capital de la Argólide.
- 2Nave que transportó a los argonautas.
- 3Perro de Ulises, inmortalizado por Homero. Fue el único ser que reconoció al héroe cuando volvió a Ítaca. Expiró tras dar tan conmovedor testimonio de fidelidad.
- 4Príncipe argivo que, según la fábula, tenía cien ojos, de los que siempre tenía abiertos cincuenta y a quien encargó Juno la guarda de Ío convertida en vaca Mercurio consiguió dormirlo por completo con su flauta y le cortó la cabeza; Juno sembró entonces sus ojos en la cola del pavo real. Ha pasado a la lengua el nombre de Argos como símbolo de la vigilancia.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agros,arggos,argoss,argso,arogs,arrgos,ragos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Argos
Misspelling Variants of "Argos"
Frequency rank: #35,877 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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