pancracio
[pãŋˈkɾasjo]
The verdict
“pancracio” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,189 among 48,357 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,189
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Estilo de lucha gímnica practicada en la antigua Grecia e introducida en los Juegos Olímpicos el año 648 a. C. En la actualidad se ha reconstruido y se fomenta su práctica, tanto en Grecia como fue...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pancracio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pãŋˈkɾasjo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pancracio” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pancracio is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,189 among 48,357 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pãŋˈkɾasjo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Estilo de lucha gímnica practicada en la antigua Grecia e introducida en los Juegos Olímpicos el año 648 a. C. En la actualidad se ha reconstruido y se fomenta su práctica, tanto en Grecia como fue...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pancracio, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is pancracio, spelled P-A-N-C-R-A-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1Estilo de lucha gímnica practicada en la antigua Grecia e introducida en los Juegos Olímpicos el año 648 a. C. En la actualidad se ha reconstruido y se fomenta su práctica, tanto en Grecia como fuera de ella.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pancracio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-N-C-R-A-C-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pãŋˈkɾasjo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.