fleco
[ˈfleko]
The verdict
“fleco” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,537 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,537
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hilillo que remata como adorno una tela, bien en un traje o en la ropa de los muebles, etc.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fleco · fleco · Spanish
fleco · rank #74,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,537
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH Folch
Nearest frequency peer: Folch (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “fleco”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- financiamos
financiamos
25,469 corpus weight
- fleco
fleco
25,464 corpus weight
- Folch
Folch
25,463 corpus weight
- folha
folha
25,462 corpus weight
- fomentada
fomentada
25,461 corpus weight
- fortísimo
fortísimo
25,459 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “fleco” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fleco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfleko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “fleco” en español
Rare enough to double-check
fleco is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,537 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfleko]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fleco, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is fleco, spelled F-L-E-C-O.
Definition
- 1Hilillo que remata como adorno una tela, bien en un traje o en la ropa de los muebles, etc.
- 2Adorno compuesto por una serie de hilos o cordoncillos colgantes de una pieza de tela o de pasamanería.
- 3Borde deshilachado por el uso en una tela vieja.
- 4Detalle que todavía debe ser resuelto en un determinado asunto o negociación.
- 5Flequillo.
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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