circo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,383
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
circo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Gran carpa, generalmente por la forma nómada del negocio, con gradas para el público y un espacio al centro donde se realizan espectáculos gimnásticos, ecuestres, de payasos, entre otros. Pronounced [ˈsiɾko]. It ranks #5,383 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with creo and Coro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsiɾko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for circo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsiɾko]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,383 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for circo, with forms such as "ccirco", "cicro", and "circco". 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", "Coro", "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 circo, spelled C-I-R-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gran carpa, generalmente por la forma nómada del negocio, con gradas para el público y un espacio al centro donde se realizan espectáculos gimnásticos, ecuestres, de payasos, entre otros.
- 2El espectáculo mismo realizado en el circo₁.
- 3Conjunto de asientos puestos en cierto orden para los que van de oficio o convidados a asistir a alguna función.
- 4Conjunto de las personas que ocupan el circo₃.
- 5Conjunto de objetos, artistas y todo lo relativo que forma parte del circo₁.
- 6En la antigua Roma, recinto de forma alargada destinado para espectáculos especialmente para carreras de carros y caballos.
- 7Depresión natural con fomra semicircular rodeada de grandes paredes.
- 8Cráter lunar, por su parecido con la instalación de una carpa de circo₁ y sus alrededores.
- 9Alteración del orden pretendido.
- 10Cerco trazado en el suelo por hechiceros.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccirco,cicro,circco,ciroc,cirrco,crico,icrco,sirco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for circo
Misspelling Variants of "circo"
Frequency rank: #5,383 in Spanish
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