claro
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#273
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
claro is anSpanishadj. It means: De tono cromático poco subido. Pronounced [ˈklaɾo]. It ranks #273 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Coro and clay.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈklaɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for claro is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈklaɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #273 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 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 claro, with forms such as "calro", "cclaro", and "claor". 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, "Coro", "clay", "curo", 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 claro, spelled C-L-A-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De tono cromático poco subido.
- 2Con mucha luz.
- 3Nítido, preciso.
- 4Fácil de entender.
- 5Obvio, evidente.
- 6Libre de impurezas que enturbian.
- 7Con ideas firmes y cabales, que no titubea.
- 8Ilustre, insigne, famoso.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: calro,cclaro,claor,clarro,cllaro,clrao,lcaro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for claro
Misspelling Variants of "claro"
Frequency rank: #273 in Spanish
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