pico
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,279
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pico is aSpanishnoun. It means: Estructura óseo-vascular que cubre la boca y nariz de las aves, adaptada a sus hábitos alimentarios. Pronounced [ˈpiko]. It ranks #3,279 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with po and pie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpiko] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pico is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpiko]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,279 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pico, with forms such as "ipco", "pcio", and "picco". 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", "pie", "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 pico, spelled P-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estructura óseo-vascular que cubre la boca y nariz de las aves, adaptada a sus hábitos alimentarios.
- 2Por extensión, órgano análogo en los insectos.
- 3Por extensión, espacio limitado por la boca y la faringe, donde se realiza la masticación y parte de la deglución, además del habla en el ser humano.
- 4Por metonimia, beso en el que sólo se juntan los labios de una persona con los de otra para retirarlos inmediatamente.
- 5Canal junto a la boca de algunos recipientes para facilitar el vertido de sus contenidos.
- 6Más generalmente, saliente puntiagudo de cualquier cosa.
- 7Herramienta formada por un mango largo con un hierro curvo en el extremo que sirve para cavar.
- 8Cima aguda de una montaña.
- 9Por extensión, la misma montaña que tiene un pico₇.
- 10Cantidad pequeña e indeterminada que se suma a una dicha anteriormente.
- 11Dosis de heroína.
- 12Pene.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipco,pcio,picco,pioc,ppico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pico
Misspelling Variants of "pico"
Frequency rank: #3,279 in Spanish
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