pero
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#26
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pero is aSpanishconj. It means: Úsase para introducir una proposición que contradice o se contrapone a la anterior. Pronounced [ˈpeɾo]. It ranks #26 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with po and por.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Conj |
| IPA | [ˈpeɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pero is 4 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpeɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #26 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for pero, with forms such as "epro", "ppero", and "preo". 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", "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 pero, spelled P-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Úsase para introducir una proposición que contradice o se contrapone a la anterior.
- 2Úsase en posición inicial con valor enfático o para indicar sorpresa.
- 3Úsase para contraponer una afirmación a una negación anterior.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epro,ppero,preo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pero
Misspelling Variants of "pero"
Frequency rank: #26 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Spanish index: