foco
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,680
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
foco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Punto físico en el que convergen los rayos de luz reflejados o refractados por una lente o espejo. Pronounced [ˈfoko]. It ranks #6,680 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with for and fox.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfoko] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for foco is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoko]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,680 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for foco, with forms such as "fcoo", "ffoco", and "focco". 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, "for", "fox", "foto", 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 foco, spelled F-O-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Punto físico en el que convergen los rayos de luz reflejados o refractados por una lente o espejo.
- 2Punto desde el cual parten los rayos caloríficos o luminosos.
- 3Punto cartesiano al que puede asociarse un segmento de recta de tal modo que la suma de las distancias de un punto en una curva hacia el foco y la recta sean constantes; de las propiedades del segmento dependerá la figura así trazada.
- 4Propiedad de converger la luz adecuadamente sobre el medio fotográfico para producir una representación precisa y clara.
- 5Figurativamente, aquello en que se concentra la atención.
- 6Lugar físico o imaginario en el que se concentra una cosa o actividad y desde donde se propaga.
- 7Dispositivo eléctrico formado por un delgado hilo de vanadio u otro metal en un recipiente vacío, a través del cual se hace pasar corriente eléctrica para iluminar por incandescencia.
- 8Dispositivo de potentes luces que los coches llevan en la parte delantera para iluminar su camino.
- 9Dispositivo para iluminar con mucha potencia en cierta dirección.
- 10Farola para iluminar las calles.
- 11Dispositivo portátil para iluminar, que funciona con pilas o baterías.
- 12Vela mayor de una balandra (pequeña embarcación de un solo palo).
- 13Foca macho.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fcoo,ffoco,focco,fooc,ofco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for foco
Misspelling Variants of "foco"
Frequency rank: #6,680 in Spanish
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