risco
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,761
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
risco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hendidura. Pronounced [ˈrisko]. Often confused with ruso and rito.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | risco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrisko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for risco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrisko]. Corpus data places it at rank #34,761 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for risco, with forms such as "irsco", "riscco", and "risoc". 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, "ruso", "rito", "rise", 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 risco, spelled R-I-S-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hendidura.
- 2Peñasco alto y escarpado, difícil y arriesgado para andar por él.
- 3Fruta de sartén, hecha con pedacitos de masa rebozados en miel, que se pegan y forman figuras a manera de riscos₂.
- 4Riesgo.
- 5Restos del pan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irsco,riscco,risoc,rissco,rrisco,rsico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for risco
Misspelling Variants of "risco"
Frequency rank: #34,761 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Spanish index: