concurso
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,718
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
concurso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Competencia abierta entre diversos candidatos en quienes concurren las mismas condiciones, para escoger al mejor o a los mejores. Pronounced [kõŋˈkuɾso]. It ranks #1,718 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with confuso and conjuro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concurso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõŋˈkuɾso] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for concurso is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõŋˈkuɾso]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,718 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for concurso, with forms such as "cconcurso", "cnocurso", and "cocnurso". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "confuso", "conjuro", "converso", 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 concurso, spelled C-O-N-C-U-R-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Competencia abierta entre diversos candidatos en quienes concurren las mismas condiciones, para escoger al mejor o a los mejores.
- 2Concurrencia.
- 3Coincidencia simultánea de sucesos o circunstancias diferentes.
- 4Asistencia o ayuda para una cosa.
- 5Oposición que por medio de ejercicios científicos, artísticos o literarios, o alegando méritos, se hace a prebendas, cátedras, premios, etc.
- 6Llamamiento a los que quieran encargarse de ejecutar una obra bajo determinadas condiciones, para elegir la propuesta que ofrezca mayores ventajas.
- 7Régimen jurídico al que se pueden someter cierto tipo de deudores cuyo patrimonio es insolvente, en donde deben intentar concluir un acuerdo con sus acreedores para revertir la situación de crisis que devino en la insolvencia. De no poder pactarse o cumplirse el acuerdo, deberá declararse la quiebra.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconcurso,cnocurso,cocnurso,conccurso,concruso,concuros,concurrso,concursso,concusro,conncurso,conucrso,ocncurso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for concurso
Misspelling Variants of "concurso"
Frequency rank: #1,718 in Spanish
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