básico
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,676
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
básico is anSpanishadj. It means: Que pertenece o concierne a la base o las bases sobre lo que algo se asienta, funda, apoya, fundamenta o sustenta; muy importante. Pronounced [ˈbasiko]. It ranks #3,676 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with baso and busco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | básico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈbasiko] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for básico is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbasiko]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,676 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for básico, with forms such as "bbásico", "bsáico", and "bácico". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "baso", "busco", "batió", 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 básico, spelled B-Á-S-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne a la base o las bases sobre lo que algo se asienta, funda, apoya, fundamenta o sustenta; muy importante.
- 2Que solamente tiene o incluye de lo estrictamente necesario; los elementos o rudimentos más sencillos de algo, sin más sofisticación; meramente funcional.
- 3Se dice de la sal formada por una base fuerte y un ácido débil, resultado de reemplazar parcialmente los oxhidrilos de un hidróxido por los aniones de un ácido.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbásico,bsáico,bácico,báisco,báscio,básicco,básioc,bássico,vásico,ábsico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for básico
Misspelling Variants of "básico"
Frequency rank: #3,676 in Spanish
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