pecado

/[peˈkað̞o]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,446

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

pecado is aSpanishnoun. It means: Trasgresión voluntaria de los mandamientos religiosos o divinos; infracción moral. Pronounced [peˈkað̞o]. It ranks #4,446 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pedo and pecho.

Key facts for pecado
PropertyValue
Headwordpecado
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[peˈkað̞o]
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,446
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pecado is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peˈkað̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,446 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for pecado, with forms such as "epcado", "pceado", and "peacdo". 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, "pedo", "pecho", "prado", 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 pecado, spelled P-E-C-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Trasgresión voluntaria de los mandamientos religiosos o divinos; infracción moral.
  2. 2
    Acción que se aparta de lo considerado correcto, justo o equilibrado, por exceso o por defecto.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epcado,pceado,peacdo,pecaddo,pecaod,peccado,pecdao,ppecado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pecado

Misspelling Variants of "pecado"

epcado6pceado6peacdo6pecaddo7pecaod6peccado7pecdao6ppecado7
Misspelling Variants of "pecado"

Frequency rank: #4,446 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pecado"?
"pecado" is spelled P-E-C-A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [peˈkað̞o].
What does "pecado" mean?
As a noun, "pecado" means: Trasgresión voluntaria de los mandamientos religiosos o divinos; infracción moral.
What words are commonly confused with "pecado"?
"pecado" is commonly confused with "pedo", "pecho", "prado". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pecado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pecado" is [peˈkað̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pecado" come from?
"pecado" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.