rico
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#976
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rico is anSpanishadj. It means: Dicho de una persona, que posee gran cantidad de bienes o dinero. Pronounced [ˈriko]. It ranks #976 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ro and río.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈriko] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rico is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈriko]. Corpus data places it at rank #976 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for rico, with forms such as "irco", "rcio", and "ricco". 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, "ro", "río", "ríe", 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 rico, spelled R-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de una persona, que posee gran cantidad de bienes o dinero.
- 2Dicho de un bien material, de gran precio o valor.
- 3Dicho de la tierra u otro medio de producción, que produce mucho.
- 4Dicho de un alimento, de sabor agradable.
- 5Propio de o perteneciente a la nobleza.
- 6Dicho de una persona, en especial de un niño, que tiene encanto y gracia.
- 7Dicho de una persona, que tiene gran atractivo físico.
- 8Por extensión, que causa sensación de placer y alegría.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irco,rcio,ricco,rioc,rrico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rico
Misspelling Variants of "rico"
Frequency rank: #976 in Spanish
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