barco
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,543
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
barco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vaso₁ de madera, hierro u otra materia, que flota y que, impulsado y dirigido por un artificio adecuado, puede transportar por el agua personas o cosas. Pronounced [ˈbaɾko]. It ranks #2,543 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bro and Bart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaɾko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for barco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaɾko]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,543 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 barco, with forms such as "abrco", "bacro", and "barcco". 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, "bro", "Bart", "buró", 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 barco, spelled B-A-R-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vaso₁ de madera, hierro u otra materia, que flota y que, impulsado y dirigido por un artificio adecuado, puede transportar por el agua personas o cosas.
- 2Barranco poco profundo.
- 3Recipiente empleado con diversos fines. Se elabora a partir de una calabaza.
- 4Vasija redonda, cuya forma recuerda a la de una calabaza.
- 5Irresponsable, que no cumple con las responsabilidades que se le asignan.
- 6Alumno aprovechado.
- 7Dicho de un profesor: Que califica positivamente a sus alumnos, incluso si estos no han cumplido satisfactoriamente con lo asignado por él.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abrco,bacro,barcco,baroc,barrco,bbarco,braco,varco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for barco
Misspelling Variants of "barco"
Frequency rank: #2,543 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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