canaco
[kaˈnako]
The verdict
“canaco” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #96,076 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,076
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perteneciente a alguno de los grupos polinesios y melanesios que pobló orignalmente parte de Oceanía, como Nueva Caledonia, Tahití, Hawái y otras islas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-canaco · canaco · Spanish
canaco · rank #96,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,076
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH camufla
Nearest frequency peer: camufla (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “canaco”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- caminaré
caminaré
3,928 corpus weight
- Campion
Campion
3,927 corpus weight
- camufla
camufla
3,926 corpus weight
- canaco
canaco
3,925 corpus weight
- cancelaba
cancelaba
3,924 corpus weight
- cansaremos
cansaremos
3,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “canaco” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canaco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kaˈnako] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “canaco” en español
Rare enough to double-check
canaco is uncommon Spanish at frequency #96,076 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kaˈnako]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Perteneciente a alguno de los grupos polinesios y melanesios que pobló orignalmente parte de Oceanía, como Nueva Caledonia, Tahití, Hawái y otras islas.".
canaco doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is canaco, spelled C-A-N-A-C-O.
Definition
- 1Perteneciente a alguno de los grupos polinesios y melanesios que pobló orignalmente parte de Oceanía, como Nueva Caledonia, Tahití, Hawái y otras islas.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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