pavo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,892
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pavo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Meleagris gallopavo) Ave gallinácea de hasta un metro de altura, plumaje café verdoso, cabeza y cuello desnudos cubiertos de carúnculas rojas, que en estado silvestre vive desde Canadá hasta el no... Pronounced [ˈpaβ̞o]. Often confused with po and paz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpaβ̞o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pavo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpaβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,892 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for pavo, with forms such as "apvo", "pabo", and "paov". 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", "pro", 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 pavo, spelled P-A-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Meleagris gallopavo) Ave gallinácea de hasta un metro de altura, plumaje café verdoso, cabeza y cuello desnudos cubiertos de carúnculas rojas, que en estado silvestre vive desde Canadá hasta el norte de México. Domesticada por los amerindios, hoy es un ave de corral que se consume en todo el mundo.
- 2Persona joven, adolescente.
- 3Persona cualquiera a la que se la nombra sin identificarla.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apvo,pabo,paov,pavvo,ppavo,pvao
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pavo
Misspelling Variants of "pavo"
Frequency rank: #12,892 in Spanish
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