río
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#698
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
río is aSpanishnoun. It means: Corriente de agua de caudal importante que discurre por tierra desde un manantial, una masa de hielos o un lago. Pronounced [ˈrio]. It ranks #698 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ro and rr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | río |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrio] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for río is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrio]. Corpus data places it at rank #698 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for río in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ro", "rr", "RM", 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 río, spelled R-Í-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Corriente de agua de caudal importante que discurre por tierra desde un manantial, una masa de hielos o un lago.
- 2Por extensión, cantidad generosa de cualquier líquido.
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Frequency rank: #698 in Spanish
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