radio

/[ˈrað̞jo]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#833

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

radio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Segmento de recta que tiene por extremos el punto centro y un punto cualquiera de la circunferencia. Pronounced [ˈrað̞jo]. It ranks #833 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with río and Rai.

Key facts for radio
PropertyValue
Headwordradio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈrað̞jo]
Letters5
Frequency rank#833
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of radio in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for radio is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrað̞jo]. Corpus data places it at rank #833 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for radio, with forms such as "ardio", "raddio", and "radoi". 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, "río", "Rai", "rato", 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 radio, spelled R-A-D-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Segmento de recta que tiene por extremos el punto centro y un punto cualquiera de la circunferencia.
  2. 2
    En una esfera, cualquier segmento recto que va desde su centro a su superficie.
  3. 3
    Longitud de cualquiera de los radios_(3,4) de un círculo o de una esfera.
  4. 4
    Hueso del antebrazo, largo, par, simétrico, formado por un cuerpo prismático triangular, con tres caras, anterior, posterior y externa; tres bordes, anterior, posterior e interno, y dos extremos, superior o cabeza e inferior en forma de pirámide con seis caras. Se encuentra en la parte externa del antebrazo. Se articula por arriba con el húmero y el cúbito y por abajo con el cúbito, escafoides y semilunar.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ardio,raddio,radoi,raido,rdaio,rradio

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for radio

Misspelling Variants of "radio"

ardio5raddio6radoi5raido5rdaio5rradio6
Misspelling Variants of "radio"

Frequency rank: #833 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "radio"?
"radio" is spelled R-A-D-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈrað̞jo].
What does "radio" mean?
As a noun, "radio" means: Segmento de recta que tiene por extremos el punto centro y un punto cualquiera de la circunferencia.
What words are commonly confused with "radio"?
"radio" is commonly confused with "río", "Rai", "rato". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "radio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "radio" is [ˈrað̞jo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "radio" come from?
"radio" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.