párroco
[ˈparoko]
The verdict
“párroco” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #15,209. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,209
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sacerdote encargado, en virtud del oficio que tiene, del cuidado, instrucción y pasto espiritual de una feligresía.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | párroco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈparoko] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “párroco” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around párroco (IPA [ˈparoko]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,209 among 48,357 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sacerdote encargado, en virtud del oficio que tiene, del cuidado, instrucción y pasto espiritual de una feligresía.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for párroco, with forms such as "ppárroco", "prároco", and "pároco". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "patrono", "párrafo", "parezco", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is párroco, spelled P-Á-R-R-O-C-O.
Definition
- 1Sacerdote encargado, en virtud del oficio que tiene, del cuidado, instrucción y pasto espiritual de una feligresía.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppárroco
- prároco
- pároco
- párorco
- párrcoo
- párrocco
- párrooc
- áprroco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of párroco - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “párroco”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-Á-R-R-O-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈparoko] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “patrono” - see the side-by-side comparison. párroco vs patrono
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
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.