naco
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,847
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
naco is anSpanishadj. It means: De etnia amerindia. Pronounced [ˈnako]. Often confused with no and nah.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | naco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈnako] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for naco is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnako]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,847 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for naco, with forms such as "anco", "nacco", and "naoc". 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, "no", "nah", "nat", 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 naco, spelled N-A-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De etnia amerindia.
- 2Dicho de una persona, de mal gusto, vulgar, inculto, sin distinción de estatus económico.
- 3Dicho de una cosa, propia de alguien naco₂.
- 4Materia fecal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anco,nacco,naoc,ncao,nnaco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for naco
Misspelling Variants of "naco"
Frequency rank: #28,847 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter N in our Spanish index: