casco

/[ˈkasko]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,771

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

casco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Complemento rígido de protección para la cabeza. Pronounced [ˈkasko]. It ranks #4,771 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with caso and casi.

Key facts for casco
PropertyValue
Headwordcasco
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkasko]
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,771
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of casco in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for casco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for casco, with forms such as "acsco", "cacso", and "cascco". 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, "caso", "casi", "coco", 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 casco, spelled C-A-S-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Complemento rígido de protección para la cabeza.
  2. 2
    Recipiente una vez desprovisto de su contenido.
  3. 3
    Parte 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.
  4. 4
    Parte 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.
  5. 5
    Estuche córneo de la parte distal de las extremidades de los artiodáctilos, que tiene una función protectora.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acsco,cacso,cascco,casoc,cassco,ccasco,csaco

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for casco

Misspelling Variants of "casco"

acsco5cacso5cascco6casoc5cassco6ccasco6csaco5
Misspelling Variants of "casco"

Frequency rank: #4,771 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "casco"?
"casco" is spelled C-A-S-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkasko].
What does "casco" mean?
As a noun, "casco" means: Complemento rígido de protección para la cabeza.
What words are commonly confused with "casco"?
"casco" is commonly confused with "caso", "casi", "coco". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "casco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "casco" is [ˈkasko]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "casco" come from?
"casco" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.