aro
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,762
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aro is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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 ... Pronounced [ˈaɾo]. Often confused with ay and as.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aro is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,762 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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 ...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for aro in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "as", "at", 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 aro, spelled A-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
Frequency rank: #14,762 in Spanish
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