coo
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,681
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
coo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Strix rufipes) Ave rapaz nocturna estrigiforme con rayas alternadas entre gris y blanco, presente en Chile y Argentina. Pronounced [ˈko]. Often confused with CV and cu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈko] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for coo is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈko]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,681 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Strix rufipes) Ave rapaz nocturna estrigiforme con rayas alternadas entre gris y blanco, presente en Chile y Argentina.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for coo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cu", "cup", 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 coo, spelled C-O-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Strix rufipes) Ave rapaz nocturna estrigiforme con rayas alternadas entre gris y blanco, presente en Chile y Argentina.
Frequency rank: #47,681 in Spanish
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