correcto
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,673
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
correcto is anSpanishadj. It means: Que está libre de error. Pronounced [koˈrekt̪o]. It ranks #1,673 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with correo and corrupto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | correcto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [koˈrekt̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for correcto is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈrekt̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,673 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for correcto, with forms such as "ccorrecto", "corecto", and "corercto". 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, "correo", "corrupto", "correctos", 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 correcto, spelled C-O-R-R-E-C-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que está libre de error.
- 2Dicho de una persona o de su comportamiento, que adhiere a las normas de urbanidad y cortesía imperantes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorrecto,corecto,corercto,corrceto,correccto,correcot,correctto,corretco,crorecto,ocrrecto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for correcto
Misspelling Variants of "correcto"
Frequency rank: #1,673 in Spanish
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