metro
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,905
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
metro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Unidad de longitud del Sistema Internacional de Unidades equivalente a la distancia recorrida por la luz en un tiempo de 1/299.792.458 de segundo. Pronounced [ˈmet̪ɾo]. It ranks #1,905 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with muro and moto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | metro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmet̪ɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for metro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmet̪ɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,905 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for metro, with forms such as "emtro", "merto", and "metor". 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, "muro", "moto", "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 metro, spelled M-E-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unidad de longitud del Sistema Internacional de Unidades equivalente a la distancia recorrida por la luz en un tiempo de 1/299.792.458 de segundo.
- 2Cinta metálica autoenrollable con escala graduada que alcanza varios metros de longitud, utilizada para medir la longitud de los objetos, sobre todo en trabajos de construccción.
- 3Medida de un verso, determinada por el número de sílabas, la posición de los acentos, el ritmo y la rima, principalmente.
- 4En el idioma griego o latino, unidad de medida de la repetición de un determinado patrón de sílabas de duración larga (habitualmente transcritas en métrica con el signo de raya larga baja o __) o bien breve (transcrito con el signo U).
- 5Modelo a seguir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emtro,merto,metor,metrro,mettro,mmetro,mtero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for metro
Misspelling Variants of "metro"
Frequency rank: #1,905 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index: