curo
[ˈkuɾo]
The verdict
“curo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,690) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,690
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de curar o de curarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-curo · curo · Spanish
curo · rank #47,690 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,690
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cursaba
Nearest frequency peer: cursaba (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “curo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- creyeran
creyeran
52,315 corpus weight
- cruenta
cruenta
52,314 corpus weight
- cuadritos
cuadritos
52,313 corpus weight
- curo
curo
52,311 corpus weight
- cursaba
cursaba
52,310 corpus weight
- cute
cute
52,309 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “curo” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkuɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “curo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for curo is neighbouring look-alikes ("cut", "cuyo", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈkuɾo]. Frequency #47,690 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de curar o de curarse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for curo, with forms such as "ccuro", "cruo", and "cuor". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "cuyo", "cuya", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is curo, spelled C-U-R-O.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de curar o de curarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccuro
- cruo
- cuor
- ucro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "curo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).