marzo

/[ˈmaɾso]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#514

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

marzo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tercer mes del calendario gregoriano. Fue dedicado a Marte, que además de ser venerado en la Antigüedad como dios de la guerra, era también dios de la vegetación, así que se le dedicó el mes en que... Pronounced [ˈmaɾso]. It ranks #514 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mayo and muro.

Key facts for marzo
PropertyValue
Headwordmarzo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈmaɾso]
Letters5
Frequency rank#514
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of marzo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for marzo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaɾso]. Corpus data places it at rank #514 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercer mes del calendario gregoriano. Fue dedicado a Marte, que además de ser venerado en la Antigüedad como dios de la guerra, era también dios de la vegetación, así que se le dedicó el mes en que...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for marzo, with forms such as "amrzo", "maroz", and "marrzo". 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, "mayo", "muro", "miro", 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 marzo, spelled M-A-R-Z-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercer mes del calendario gregoriano. Fue dedicado a Marte, que además de ser venerado en la Antigüedad como dios de la guerra, era también dios de la vegetación, así que se le dedicó el mes en que inicia la primavera boreal.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amrzo,maroz,marrzo,marzzo,mazro,mmarzo,mrazo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for marzo

Misspelling Variants of "marzo"

amrzo5maroz5marrzo6marzzo6mazro5mmarzo6mrazo5
Misspelling Variants of "marzo"

Frequency rank: #514 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "marzo"?
"marzo" is spelled M-A-R-Z-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmaɾso].
What does "marzo" mean?
As a noun, "marzo" means: Tercer mes del calendario gregoriano. Fue dedicado a Marte, que además de ser venerado en la Antigüedad como dios de la guerra, era también dios de la vegetación, así que se le dedicó el mes en que...
What words are commonly confused with "marzo"?
"marzo" is commonly confused with "mayo", "muro", "miro". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "marzo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marzo" is [ˈmaɾso]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marzo" come from?
"marzo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.