fresco
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,712
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
fresco is anSpanishadj. It means: De factura o producción muy reciente. Pronounced [ˈfɾesko]. It ranks #4,712 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fresh and friso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fresco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈfɾesko] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fresco is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɾesko]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,712 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 fresco, with forms such as "fersco", "ffresco", and "frecso". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "fresh", "friso", "Fresno", 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 fresco, spelled F-R-E-S-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De factura o producción muy reciente.
- 2Dicho de un alimento, en buen estado de conservación.
- 3Dicho de un alimento, que no ha sido sometido a ningún tratamiento de conservación, como el salado o la congelación, o simplemente no procesado.
- 4Dicho de una persona, en buen estado de salud y descanso.
- 5Dicho de una sustancia viscosa, que aún no ha acabado de secarse.
- 6De temperatura ligeramente y agradablemente fría.
- 7Dicho de una tela o prenda, que ayuda a disipar el calor rápidamente y mantener fresco₆ el cuerpo.
- 8Dicho de una persona, que no muestra vergüenza por cometer acciones que se reputan inmorales, en especial las relativas al pudor.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fersco,ffresco,frecso,frescco,fresoc,fressco,frresco,frseco,rfesco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fresco
Misspelling Variants of "fresco"
Frequency rank: #4,712 in Spanish
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