pecho
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,219
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pecho is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte del cuerpo de los vertebrados que se extiende desde el cuello hasta el borde inferior de las costillas, donde deja lugar al vientre; en su interior residen varios de los órganos más importantes. Pronounced [ˈpet͡ʃo]. It ranks #2,219 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with peo and pero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pecho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpet͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pecho is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpet͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,219 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pecho, with forms such as "epcho", "pceho", and "peccho". 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, "peo", "pero", "poco", 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 pecho, spelled P-E-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte del cuerpo de los vertebrados que se extiende desde el cuello hasta el borde inferior de las costillas, donde deja lugar al vientre; en su interior residen varios de los órganos más importantes.
- 2En particular, cara anterior de esta región.
- 3Glándula mamaria de la mujer.
- 4Figurativamente, carácter y condición interior del ser humano.
- 5Figurativamente, centro de las emociones de uno.
- 6Tributo o contribución que se pagaba al rey o al señor feudal.
- 7Estilo de natación en que se avanza boca abajo dando brazadas y patadas hacia afuera del cuerpo (como una rana), sin sacar del agua ni brazos ni piernas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epcho,pceho,peccho,pechho,pecoh,pehco,ppecho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pecho
Misspelling Variants of "pecho"
Frequency rank: #2,219 in Spanish
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