oro
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#752
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
oro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento químico con el número atómico 79. Es un metal pesado, dúctil, maleable, resistente a la corrosión, muy apreciado en joyería desde la remota Antigüedad. Pronounced [ˈoɾo]. It ranks #752 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with os and oz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoɾo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oro is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #752 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for oro in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "oz", "ou", 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 oro, spelled O-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elemento químico con el número atómico 79. Es un metal pesado, dúctil, maleable, resistente a la corrosión, muy apreciado en joyería desde la remota Antigüedad.
- 2Joyería u ornamento de este material.
- 3Por extensión, bien que se usa para el pago de otros bienes y servicios y como unidad de medida de la riqueza.
- 4Medalla de este metal, que se otorga convencionalmente al primer clasificado en ciertas pruebas deportivas.
- 5Cualquier naipe de la baraja española pertenenciente al palo de los oros.
- 6Color entre amarillo y naranja que recuerda el color del metal con el mismo nombre.
- 7Color amarillo, que se representa por puntos.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #752 in Spanish
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