Ícaro
[ˈikaɾo]
The verdict
“Ícaro” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,915 among 90 “Í” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,915
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 90
- “Í” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “Ícaro” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ícaro is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,915 among 90 “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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Using “Ícaro”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is Í-C-A-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈikaɾo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.