pacano

/[paˈkano]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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pacano is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Carya illinoinensis) Árbol caducifolio de la familia de las Yuglandáceas nativo de América del Norte de gran porte, hojas compuestas ovales y dentadas, flores verdosas en amentos largos y fruto dr... Pronounced [paˈkano].

Key facts for pacano
PropertyValue
Headwordpacano
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[paˈkano]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pacano is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pacano is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈkano]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Carya illinoinensis) Árbol caducifolio de la familia de las Yuglandáceas nativo de América del Norte de gran porte, hojas compuestas ovales y dentadas, flores verdosas en amentos largos y fruto dr...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pacano in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 pacano, spelled P-A-C-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Carya illinoinensis) Árbol caducifolio de la familia de las Yuglandáceas nativo de América del Norte de gran porte, hojas compuestas ovales y dentadas, flores verdosas en amentos largos y fruto drupáceo en trima del tamaño de una nuez, de cáscara lisa ovoide con una almendra comestible.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pacano"?
"pacano" is spelled P-A-C-A-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [paˈkano].
What does "pacano" mean?
As a noun, "pacano" means: (Carya illinoinensis) Árbol caducifolio de la familia de las Yuglandáceas nativo de América del Norte de gran porte, hojas compuestas ovales y dentadas, flores verdosas en amentos largos y fruto dr...
How do you pronounce "pacano"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pacano" is [paˈkano]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pacano" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.