correo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,473
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
correo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Persona que transporta cartas, mensajes y otros envíos Pronounced [koˈreo]. It ranks #1,473 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with creo and corte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | correo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koˈreo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for correo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koˈreo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,473 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for correo, with forms such as "ccorreo", "coreo", and "corero". 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, "creo", "corte", "corto", 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 correo, spelled C-O-R-R-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona que transporta cartas, mensajes y otros envíos
- 2Servicio público que tiene por objeto el transporte y gestión de este servicio.
- 3Medio de transporte destinado a llevar este tipo de envíos
- 4Conjunto de cartas, paquetes o pliegos de cualquier clase que se despachan o reciben.
- 5Ladrón que en un trabajo tiene la función de alertar a los demás de la presencia de policías u otros testigos
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorreo,coreo,corero,corroe,croreo,ocrreo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for correo
Misspelling Variants of "correo"
Frequency rank: #1,473 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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