riesgo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,155
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
riesgo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Proximidad o posibilidad de que alguien o algo sufra un perjuicio o daño. Pronounced [ˈrjesɣ̞o]. It ranks #1,155 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ruego and ringo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riesgo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrjesɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for riesgo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrjesɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,155 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for riesgo, with forms such as "iresgo", "reisgo", and "riegso". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "ruego", "ringo", "risco", 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 riesgo, spelled R-I-E-S-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proximidad o posibilidad de que alguien o algo sufra un perjuicio o daño.
- 2Situación en que puede darse esa posibilidad.
- 3Cada una de las contingencias contra las que puede contratarse un seguro.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iresgo,reisgo,riegso,riesggo,riesog,riessgo,risego,rriesgo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for riesgo
Misspelling Variants of "riesgo"
Frequency rank: #1,155 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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