polo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,218
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
polo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Punto de la superficie de un cuerpo esférico en rotación intersectado por el eje de la misma. Pronounced [ˈpolo]. It ranks #6,218 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with por and pro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpolo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for polo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpolo]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,218 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 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for polo, with forms such as "oplo", "ploo", and "ppolo". 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, "por", "pro", "pop", 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 polo, spelled P-O-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Punto de la superficie de un cuerpo esférico en rotación intersectado por el eje de la misma.
- 2Región contigua a los polos₁ de un cuerpo.
- 3Cada uno de los extremos de un cuerpo o sistema en que se acumula energía de tipo magnético o eléctrico.
- 4Centro de atracción en el que confluyen las actividades varias personas o cosas a la vez.
- 5Cada una de las dos partes contradictorias y complementarias entre sí que hacen a la armonía del universo y también de las personas.
- 6En las coordenadas polares, punto que se escoge como el origen desde donde se trazarán todos los vectores.
- 7En una función homográfica, cada una de las raíces del denominador.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oplo,ploo,ppolo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for polo
Misspelling Variants of "polo"
Frequency rank: #6,218 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Spanish index: