recto
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,058
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
recto is anSpanishadj. It means: Que tiene la forma que sigue el camino más corto entre dos puntos, sin inclinarse, ni torcerse, ni cambiar de dirección. Pronounced [ˈrekt̪o]. Often confused with reo and rico.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈrekt̪o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for recto is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrekt̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,058 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for recto, with forms such as "ercto", "rceto", and "reccto". 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, "reo", "rico", "reto", 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 recto, spelled R-E-C-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que tiene la forma que sigue el camino más corto entre dos puntos, sin inclinarse, ni torcerse, ni cambiar de dirección.
- 2Se dice del movimiento que sigue este camino.
- 3Que es vertical, sin inclinarse ni desviarse hacia ningún lado.
- 4Se dice de la ropa, o parte de ella, sin pliegues, dobleces ni vuelos.
- 5Que tiene una conducta intachable, justa, firme, que cumple con su deber.
- 6Que es lo más apropiado para cierto fin.
- 7Sentido no figurado o translaticio de las palabras, cuando estas pueden interpretarse de más de una forma.
- 8Hablando de un cuaderno, libro o texto escrito presentado de forma similar, cuando está abierto, lo que queda en la mitad derecha.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ercto,rceto,reccto,recot,rectto,retco,rrecto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recto
Misspelling Variants of "recto"
Frequency rank: #10,058 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Spanish index: