color
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#761
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
color is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sensación que se produce al excitarse un fotorreceptor por acción de un rayo luminoso. Pronounced [koˈloɾ]. It ranks #761 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cor and coo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | color |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈloɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for color is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈloɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #761 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 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 color, with forms such as "ccolor", "cloor", and "collor". 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, "cor", "coo", "cómo", 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 color, spelled C-O-L-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sensación que se produce al excitarse un fotorreceptor por acción de un rayo luminoso.
- 2Matiz de opinión, fracción o tendencia de algún partido político.
- 3Jugada en el póquer que consiste en tener cinco cartas (no consecutivas) del mismo palo, por ejemplo cinco tréboles. Es inmediatamente superior a la escalera e inmediatamente más débil que el full house.
- 4colores que no pertenecen a los considerados metales: azur, gules, sable, sinoble y púrpura.
- 5Substancia preparada para pintar o dar a las cosas un tinte determinado.
- 6Pretexto, motivo, razón aparente para hacer algo con poco o ningún derecho.
- 7Carácter peculiar de algunas cosas, tratandosé del estilo cualidad especial que le distingue.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccolor,cloor,collor,colorr,colro,coolr,oclor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for color
Misspelling Variants of "color"
Frequency rank: #761 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: