otro
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#103
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
otro is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no es el mismo que ya se había mencionado. Pronounced [ˈot̪ɾo]. It ranks #103 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with our and otto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | otro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈot̪ɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for otro is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈot̪ɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #103 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for otro, with forms such as "otor", "otrro", and "ottro". 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, "our", "otto", "otros", 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 otro, spelled O-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no es el mismo que ya se había mencionado.
- 2En particular, no el mismo pero muy semejante.
- 3Que no es el mismo que enuncia el discurso.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otor,otrro,ottro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for otro
Misspelling Variants of "otro"
Frequency rank: #103 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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