carpo
[ˈkaɾpo]
The verdict
“carpo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #82,715 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #82,715
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Conjunto ososo que forma parte esquelética de las extremidades anteriores de los batracios, mamíferos y reptiles, y que por una parte está articulada con ambos el cúbito y el radio y por otro con l...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carpo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaɾpo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carpo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carpo is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaɾpo]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,715 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conjunto ososo que forma parte esquelética de las extremidades anteriores de los batracios, mamíferos y reptiles, y que por una parte está articulada con ambos el cúbito y el radio y por otro con l...".
carpo has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is carpo, spelled C-A-R-P-O.
Definition
- 1Conjunto ososo que forma parte esquelética de las extremidades anteriores de los batracios, mamíferos y reptiles, y que por una parte está articulada con ambos el cúbito y el radio y por otro con los huesos metacarpianos. En nos constituye el esqueleto carpiano y suele estar compuesto de ocho huesos íntimamente dispuestos y unidos en dos filas.
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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Using “carpo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-R-P-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkaɾpo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.