aro
[ˈaɾo]
The verdict
“aro” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,762) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,762
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Planta perenne de la familia de las aroideas, con raíz tuberculosa y feculenta, de la cual salen las hojas, que son sagitales, lisas, grandes y de color verde oscuro manchado a veces de negro; con ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-aro · aro · Spanish
aro · rank #14,762 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,762
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH arterial
Nearest frequency peer: arterial (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “aro”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- anarquía
anarquía
85,242 corpus weight
- aranceles
aranceles
85,241 corpus weight
- aro
aro
85,239 corpus weight
- arterial
arterial
85,238 corpus weight
- Artigas
Artigas
85,237 corpus weight
- asegurada
asegurada
85,236 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “aro” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɾo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “aro”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aro is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "as", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈaɾo]. Frequency #14,762 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Planta perenne de la familia de las aroideas, con raíz tuberculosa y feculenta, de la cual salen las hojas, que son sagitales, lisas, grandes y de color verde oscuro manchado a veces de negro; con ...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aro, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "as", "at", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is aro, spelled A-R-O.
Definition
- 1Planta perenne de la familia de las aroideas, con raíz tuberculosa y feculenta, de la cual salen las hojas, que son sagitales, lisas, grandes y de color verde oscuro manchado a veces de negro; con bohordo central, de tres a cuatro decímetros de altura, con espata larga y amarillenta que envuelve flores sin cáliz ni corola; espádice purpúreo prolongado en figura de maza, y frutos del color y tamaño de la grosella.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).