recurso
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,285
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
recurso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de recurrir (buscar la ayuda de un juez, autoridad, o alguien con capacidad para darla; reaparecer; regresar). Pronounced [reˈkuɾso]. It ranks #3,285 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with rehusó and reverso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recurso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reˈkuɾso] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for recurso is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈkuɾso]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,285 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for recurso, with forms such as "ercurso", "rceurso", and "reccurso". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "rehusó", "reverso", "recursos", 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 recurso, spelled R-E-C-U-R-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de recurrir (buscar la ayuda de un juez, autoridad, o alguien con capacidad para darla; reaparecer; regresar).
- 2Medio al que se puede recurrir para alcanzar un fin deseado.
- 3Acción o efecto de regresar o de retornar.
- 4Petición que se eleva por escrito ante una autoridad.
- 5En particular, recurso₄ que se presenta para solicitar la revisión de un fallo judicial o administrativo en una instancia superior.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ercurso,rceurso,reccurso,recruso,recuros,recurrso,recusro,reucrso,rrecurso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recurso
Misspelling Variants of "recurso"
Frequency rank: #3,285 in Spanish
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