coco
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,497
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
coco is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Cocos nucifera) Palmera pantropical, única de su género, que crece en hábitats arenosos y salinos. Alcanza los 30 m de altura, con hojas pinnadas de hasta 6 m de largo. Se aprovecha extensamente, ... Pronounced [ˈkoko]. It ranks #6,497 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with con and com.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkoko] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for coco is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkoko]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,497 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for coco, with forms such as "ccoco", "ccoo", and "cocco". 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, "con", "com", "col", 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 coco, spelled C-O-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Cocos nucifera) Palmera pantropical, única de su género, que crece en hábitats arenosos y salinos. Alcanza los 30 m de altura, con hojas pinnadas de hasta 6 m de largo. Se aprovecha extensamente, utilizándose la fibra de sus hojas para fuertes tejidos y sobre todo la pulpa de su fruto, una drupa fibrosa, en alimentación.
- 2Fruta de esta palmera, de forma esférica y superficie castaño oscuro, de la que se aprovecha tanto el mesocarpo fibroso como la semilla, blanca y dulce, que se come fresca o se seca y prensa para producir copra. El líquido que el fruto verde guarda en su interior se bebe como refresco.
- 3Figurativamente, cabeza del ser humano.
- 4Figura fantasmal de las leyendas portuguesas, que figura ostensiblemente en las historias moralizantes contadas a los niños.
- 5Gónada del animal macho, que produce el esperma.
- 6Insecto coleóptero.
- 7Seno de la mujer.
- 8Coscorrón, golpe dado en la cabeza con los nudillos.
- 9Genitales de la mujer.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoco,ccoo,cocco,cooc,occo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coco
Misspelling Variants of "coco"
Frequency rank: #6,497 in Spanish
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