porro
[ˈporo]
The verdict
“porro” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,917) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,917
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum) Variedad cultivar de la familia de las amarilidáceas, originaria de Europa y Asia Occidental, de hábito herbáceo, bienal, que se cultiva por sus hojas, bulbo y flo...
Corpus desk
Index ES-porro · porro · Spanish
porro · rank #14,917 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,917
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH portátiles
Nearest frequency peer: portátiles (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “porro”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- persiguiendo
persiguiendo
85,088 corpus weight
- picada
picada
85,087 corpus weight
- porro
porro
85,084 corpus weight
- portátiles
portátiles
85,083 corpus weight
- predominante
predominante
85,082 corpus weight
- presenciar
presenciar
85,081 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “porro” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈporo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “porro”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for porro is neighbouring look-alikes ("pro", "puro", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈporo]. Frequency #14,917 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "(Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum) Variedad cultivar de la familia de las amarilidáceas, originaria de Europa y Asia Occidental, de hábito herbáceo, bienal, que se cultiva por sus hojas, bulbo y flo...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for porro, with forms such as "oprro", "poror", and "pporro". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pro", "puro", "pozo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is porro, spelled P-O-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1(Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum) Variedad cultivar de la familia de las amarilidáceas, originaria de Europa y Asia Occidental, de hábito herbáceo, bienal, que se cultiva por sus hojas, bulbo y flores comestibles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprro
- poror
- pporro
- proro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porro - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "porro", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).