foro
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,851
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
foro is aSpanishnoun. It means: En Roma, plaza donde se trataban los negocios públicos y donde el pretor celebraba los juicios. Pronounced [ˈfoɾo]. It ranks #1,851 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fox and fra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfoɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for foro is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,851 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for foro, with forms such as "fforo", "foor", and "froo". 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, "fox", "fra", "fry", 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 foro, spelled F-O-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En Roma, plaza donde se trataban los negocios públicos y donde el pretor celebraba los juicios.
- 2Por extensión, sitio en que los tribunales oyen y determinan las causas.
- 3Curia.
- 4Abogacía, magistratura y todo lo que concierne al ejercicio de la abogacía y a la práctica de los tribunales.
- 5Lugar en donde se reúnen personas que discutirán tópicos de relevancia pública o política.
- 6Por extensión, espacio en donde usuarios pueden debatir o intercambiar información sobre cualquier asunto.
- 7Contrato consensual, propio de Galicia, por el cual una persona cede a otra, ordinariamente por tres generaciones, el dominio útil de una cosa mediante cierto canon o pensión.
- 8Canon o pensión que se paga en virtud de dicho contrato.
- 9Variante obsoleta de fuero.
- 10Parte del escenario o de las decoraciones teatrales opuesta a la embocadura y más distante de ella.
- 11Plató.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fforo,foor,froo,ofro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for foro
Misspelling Variants of "foro"
Frequency rank: #1,851 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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