pocos
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#775
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pocos is anSpanishadj. It means: Forma del masculino plural de poco. Pronounced [ˈpokos]. It ranks #775 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with poo and pozo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pocos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈpokos] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pocos is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpokos]. Corpus data places it at rank #775 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del masculino plural de poco.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pocos, with forms such as "opcos", "pcoos", and "poccos". 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, "poo", "pozo", "polo", 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 pocos, spelled P-O-C-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forma del masculino plural de poco.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opcos,pcoos,poccos,pocoss,pocso,poocs,ppocos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pocos
Misspelling Variants of "pocos"
Frequency rank: #775 in Spanish
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