paro
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,678
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
paro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Interrupción o alteración que los trabajadores hacen de su actividad para protestar contra las condiciones en las que la desempeñan. Pronounced [ˈpaɾo]. It ranks #2,678 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with po and por.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpaɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for paro is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpaɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,678 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 paro, with forms such as "apro", "paor", and "parro". 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", "por", "paz", 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 paro, spelled P-A-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Interrupción o alteración que los trabajadores hacen de su actividad para protestar contra las condiciones en las que la desempeñan.
- 2Situación de la persona que no logra encontrar o conseguir un empleo.
- 3Por extensión, subsidio que se paga a quienes se encuentran en esa situación.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apro,paor,parro,pparo,prao
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for paro
Misspelling Variants of "paro"
Frequency rank: #2,678 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Spanish index: