pico de gallo
The verdict
“pico de gallo” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Salsa típica mexicana, Se prepara mezclando: chiles, aguacate y jitomate.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pico de gallo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpiko ð̞e ˈɣ̞aʝo] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pico de gallo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pico de gallo is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpiko ð̞e ˈɣ̞aʝo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pico de gallo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de gallo, spelled P-I-C-O- -D-E- -G-A-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Salsa típica mexicana, Se prepara mezclando: chiles, aguacate y jitomate.
- 2Plato típico de Costa Rica, preparado con fríjol, arroz y tomate.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pico de gallo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-I-C-O- -D-E- -G-A-L-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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