hocicos
[oˈsikos]
The verdict
“hocicos” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #85,850 among 1,569 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,850
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Forma del plural de hocico.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hocicos · hocicos · Spanish
hocicos · rank #85,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,850
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hornero
Nearest frequency peer: hornero (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hocicos”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- heriste
heriste
14,155 corpus weight
- hilaridad
hilaridad
14,154 corpus weight
- hocicos
hocicos
14,151 corpus weight
- hornero
hornero
14,150 corpus weight
- huan
huan
14,146 corpus weight
- huidas
huidas
14,144 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hocicos” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hocicos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oˈsikos] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hocicos” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hocicos is uncommon Spanish at frequency #85,850 among 1,569 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [oˈsikos]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de hocico.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hocicos in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is hocicos, spelled H-O-C-I-C-O-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de hocico.
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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