asco
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,458
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
asco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Emoción intensa de desagrado que provoca una reacción física de malestar. Pronounced [ˈasko]. It ranks #3,458 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with así and ash.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈasko] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for asco is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈasko]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,458 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for asco, with forms such as "ascco", "asoc", and "assco". 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, "así", "ash", "ass", 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 asco, spelled A-S-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Emoción intensa de desagrado que provoca una reacción física de malestar.
- 2Esta misma reacción física provocada por la presencia o imaginación de algo repugnante.
- 3Cosa que repugna provocando asco₁.
- 4Cosa muy sucia y desaliñada.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ascco,asoc,assco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for asco
Misspelling Variants of "asco"
Frequency rank: #3,458 in Spanish
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