banco
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#799
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
banco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Empresa que ofrece servicios monetarios como cuentas o préstamos. Pronounced [ˈbãŋko]. It ranks #799 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bao and baño.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbãŋko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for banco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbãŋko]. Corpus data places it at rank #799 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for banco, with forms such as "abnco", "bacno", and "bancco". 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, "bao", "baño", "bono", 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 banco, spelled B-A-N-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Empresa que ofrece servicios monetarios como cuentas o préstamos.
- 2Mueble alargado que se usa como asiento para más de una persona.
- 3Mueble cuadrado sin respaldo que sirve como asiento individual.
- 4Grupo numeroso de peces de una misma especie.
- 5Lugar de almacenaje de tejidos humanos como la sangre o de recursos biológicos como semillas reunidos con propósitos médicos y científicos.
- 6En las galeras o embarcaciones de remo: Asiento en que van sentados los galeotes, o los que reman.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abnco,bacno,bancco,bannco,banoc,bbanco,bnaco,vanco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for banco
Misspelling Variants of "banco"
Frequency rank: #799 in Spanish
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