recursos

/[reˈkuɾsos]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#696

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

recursos is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de medios materiales para sobrevivir o para la subsistencia. Pronounced [reˈkuɾsos]. It ranks #696 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with recurso and recreos.

Key facts for recursos
PropertyValue
Headwordrecursos
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[reˈkuɾsos]
Letters8
Frequency rank#696
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for recursos is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈkuɾsos]. Corpus data places it at rank #696 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for recursos, with forms such as "ercursos", "rceursos", and "reccursos". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "recurso", "recreos", "reclusos", 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 recursos, spelled R-E-C-U-R-S-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Conjunto de medios materiales para sobrevivir o para la subsistencia.
  2. 2
    Conjunto de medios o elementos que se puede o debe usar para cubrir una necesidad o lograr un objetivo.
  3. 3
    Medios, bases o estrategias para tener éxito en algo.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ercursos,rceursos,reccursos,recrusos,recuross,recurrsos,recursoss,recursso,recurssos,recusros,reucrsos,rrecursos

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for recursos

Misspelling Variants of "recursos"

ercursos8rceursos8reccursos9recrusos8recuross8recurrsos9recursoss9recursso8
Misspelling Variants of "recursos"

Frequency rank: #696 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "recursos"?
"recursos" is spelled R-E-C-U-R-S-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [reˈkuɾsos].
What does "recursos" mean?
As a noun, "recursos" means: Conjunto de medios materiales para sobrevivir o para la subsistencia.
What words are commonly confused with "recursos"?
"recursos" is commonly confused with "recurso", "recreos", "reclusos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "recursos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "recursos" is [reˈkuɾsos]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "recursos" come from?
"recursos" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.