puerto
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#776
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
puerto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lugar abrigado de la costa que permite que los barcos acosten con seguridad y puedan proceder a labores de carga y descarga. Pronounced [ˈpweɾt̪o]. It ranks #776 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with puro and puto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puerto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpweɾt̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for puerto is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpweɾt̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #776 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for puerto, with forms such as "peurto", "ppuerto", and "puerot". 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, "puro", "puto", "punto", 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 puerto, spelled P-U-E-R-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lugar abrigado de la costa que permite que los barcos acosten con seguridad y puedan proceder a labores de carga y descarga.
- 2Localidad costera habilitada para las labores de carga y descarga de todo tipo de embarcaciones.
- 3Paso cordillerano entre montañas.
- 4Cordillera, sierra o relieve montañoso que tiene uno o más pasos.
- 5Persona, lugar o situación que salva, da amparo y protección.
- 6Zona, o localización, de la memoria de un ordenador que se asocia con un puerto físico o con un canal de comunicación, y que proporciona un espacio para el almacenamiento temporal de la información que se va a transferir entre la localización de memoria y el canal de comunicación. :*Sinónimo: puerto lógico
- 7Interfaz, o conexión entre dispositivos, que permite conectar físicamente distintos tipos de dispositivos como monitores, impresoras, escáneres, discos duros externos, cámaras digitales, memorias pendrive, etc... :*Sinónimo: puerto físico
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: peurto,ppuerto,puerot,puerrto,puertto,puetro,pureto,uperto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for puerto
Misspelling Variants of "puerto"
Frequency rank: #776 in Spanish
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