paco
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,211
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
paco is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Vicugna pacos) Mamífero americano, auquénido, domesticado por los indios de Los Andes y criado principalmente por su lana, de mejor calidad que la de la llama. Es la variedad domesticada de la vic... Pronounced [ˈpako]. It ranks #6,211 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with po and paz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpako] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for paco is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpako]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,211 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 paco, with forms such as "apco", "pacco", and "paoc". 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, "po", "paz", "pan", 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 paco, spelled P-A-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Vicugna pacos) Mamífero americano, auquénido, domesticado por los indios de Los Andes y criado principalmente por su lana, de mejor calidad que la de la llama. Es la variedad domesticada de la vicuña, que vive en estado salvaje o semisalvaje.
- 2Mena de plata con ganga ferruginosa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apco,pacco,paoc,pcao,ppaco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for paco
Misspelling Variants of "paco"
Frequency rank: #6,211 in Spanish
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