pairo

/[ˈpajɾo]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#98,771

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pairo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción de pairar la nave; Una de las especies de capa que pueden hacerse cuando se navega de bolina con viento bonancible y todo aparejo, si se quiere detener el curso del bajel por poco tiempo, pa... Pronounced [ˈpajɾo].

Key facts for pairo
PropertyValue
Headwordpairo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈpajɾo]
Letters5
Frequency rank#98,771
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pairo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pairo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpajɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #98,771 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acción de pairar la nave; Una de las especies de capa que pueden hacerse cuando se navega de bolina con viento bonancible y todo aparejo, si se quiere detener el curso del bajel por poco tiempo, pa...".

No misspelling variants are generated for pairo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 pairo, spelled P-A-I-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acción de pairar la nave; Una de las especies de capa que pueden hacerse cuando se navega de bolina con viento bonancible y todo aparejo, si se quiere detener el curso del bajel por poco tiempo, para esperar algún buque o por cualquier otro motivo: consiste en bracear las gavias y demás vergas superiores por barlovento, de suerte que beban viento por la cara de proa; arriar un poco las escotas mayores y colocar progresivamente la caña del timón a sotavento.

Frequency rank: #98,771 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pairo"?
"pairo" is spelled P-A-I-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpajɾo].
What does "pairo" mean?
As a noun, "pairo" means: Acción de pairar la nave; Una de las especies de capa que pueden hacerse cuando se navega de bolina con viento bonancible y todo aparejo, si se quiere detener el curso del bajel por poco tiempo, pa...
How do you pronounce "pairo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pairo" is [ˈpajɾo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pairo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.