flanco
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,116
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
flanco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada una de las dos partes laterales de un cuerpo considerándolo de frente. Pronounced [ˈflãŋko]. Often confused with franco and France.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flanco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈflãŋko] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for flanco is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈflãŋko]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,116 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for flanco, with forms such as "falnco", "fflanco", and "flacno". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "franco", "France", "Franca", 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 flanco, spelled F-L-A-N-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada una de las dos partes laterales de un cuerpo considerándolo de frente.
- 2Costado, lado de un buque o de un cuerpo de tropa (como de navío, batallón, escuadrón, etc.).
- 3Parte del baluarte que hace ángulo entrante con la cortina, y saliente con el frente.
- 4Cada uno de los dos muros que unen al recinto fortificado las caras de un baluarte.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: falnco,fflanco,flacno,flancco,flannco,flanoc,fllanco,flnaco,lfanco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for flanco
Misspelling Variants of "flanco"
Frequency rank: #19,116 in Spanish
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