meco
[ˈmeko]
The verdict
“meco” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,427 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,427
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dicho de un animal: de color bermejo mezclado con negro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-meco · meco · Spanish
meco · rank #59,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,427
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mecedora
Nearest frequency peer: mecedora (-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 “meco”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- masacrando
masacrando
40,581 corpus weight
- mecedora
mecedora
40,575 corpus weight
- meco
meco
40,574 corpus weight
- mejorable
mejorable
40,570 corpus weight
- mellizo
mellizo
40,569 corpus weight
- mendocinos
mendocinos
40,567 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “meco” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈmeko] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “meco” en español
Rare enough to double-check
meco is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,427 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈmeko]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for meco in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is meco, spelled M-E-C-O.
Definition
- 1Dicho de un animal: de color bermejo mezclado con negro.
- 2Dicho de un indígena: salvaje, que no renunció a su antiguo estilo de vida.
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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