carro
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,230
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
carro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vehículo de uno o dos ejes impulsado por bestias de tiro. Pronounced [ˈkaro]. It ranks #3,230 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with creo and caso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaro] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaro]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,230 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for carro, with forms such as "acrro", "caror", and "ccarro". 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, "creo", "caso", "cero", 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 carro, spelled C-A-R-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vehículo de uno o dos ejes impulsado por bestias de tiro.
- 2Vehículo de cuatro ruedas, propulsado por un motor de combustión interna, destinado al transporte individual o familiar.
- 3Bus o minivan usado en el transporte público interurbano de una ciudad.
- 4Parte móvil de una máquina de escribir donde se coloca el papel.
- 5Vehículo pequeño con cuatro ruedas, abierto, empujado por una persona, para transportar objetos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrro,caror,ccarro,craro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carro
Misspelling Variants of "carro"
Frequency rank: #3,230 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: