Ícaro
[ˈikaɾo]
The verdict
“Ícaro” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,915 among 23 “Í” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,915
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 23
- “Í” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hijo de Dédalo que huyó con él del laberinto de Creta con unas alas pegadas con cera. Habiéndose Ícaro acercado demasiado al sol, se derritió la cera, se despegaron las alas y cayó el imprudente al...
Corpus desk
Index ES-icaro · Ícaro · Spanish
Ícaro · rank #69,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,915
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 23
- PHOTO-FINISH zafiros
Nearest frequency peer: zafiros (-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 “Ícaro”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Ybarra
Ybarra
30,091 corpus weight
- Yvette
Yvette
30,090 corpus weight
- zafiros
zafiros
30,087 corpus weight
- Ícaro
Ícaro
30,086 corpus weight
- Abia
Abia
30,081 corpus weight
- abordadas
abordadas
30,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Ícaro” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ícaro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈikaɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Ícaro” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Ícaro is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,915 among 23 “Í” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈikaɾo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hijo de Dédalo que huyó con él del laberinto de Creta con unas alas pegadas con cera. Habiéndose Ícaro acercado demasiado al sol, se derritió la cera, se despegaron las alas y cayó el imprudente al...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ícaro, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Ícaro, spelled Í-C-A-R-O.
Definition
- 1Hijo de Dédalo que huyó con él del laberinto de Creta con unas alas pegadas con cera. Habiéndose Ícaro acercado demasiado al sol, se derritió la cera, se despegaron las alas y cayó el imprudente al mar. En la lengua literaria se compara con frecuencia Ícaro a los que son víctimas de proyectos demasiado ambiciosos.
This word in other languages
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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