casco
[ˈkasko]
The verdict
“casco” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #4,771 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,771
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Complemento rígido de protección para la cabeza.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkasko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “casco” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for casco is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkasko]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,771 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for casco, with forms such as "acsco", "cacso", and "cascco". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "caso", "casi", "coco", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is casco, spelled C-A-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1Complemento rígido de protección para la cabeza.
- 2Recipiente una vez desprovisto de su contenido.
- 3Parte de diferentes electrodomésticos que transmiten o reproducen sonidos, que va sobre ambas orejas y está unida por una pieza curva que la sujeta sobre la cabeza.
- 4Parte principal de una embarcación constituida principalmente por la paredes que tocan el agua, su prolongación por encima de esta y la estrutura que la soporta. No incluye el motor ni las partes que hay encima de la cubierta, en especial la arboladura.
- 5Estuche córneo de la parte distal de las extremidades de los artiodáctilos, que tiene una función protectora.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acsco,cacso,cascco,casoc,cassco,ccasco,csaco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of casco - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “casco”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-S-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkasko] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “caso” - see the side-by-side comparison. casco vs caso
- 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.