robo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,424
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
robo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Efecto y acto de robar. Pronounced [ˈroβ̞o]. It ranks #2,424 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with rol and ron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | robo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈroβ̞o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for robo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈroβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,424 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 robo, with forms such as "orbo", "rboo", and "robbo". 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, "rol", "ron", "Roy", 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 robo, spelled R-O-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Efecto y acto de robar.
- 2Se dice de lo robado.
- 3Delito que consiste en apoderarse de algo que pertenece a otro(s), sin su consentimiento, por medio de la violencia, la intimidación o la fuerza.
- 4En ciertos juegos de mesa, número de fichas o de naipes que se toman del monte.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orbo,rboo,robbo,roob,rovo,rrobo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for robo
Misspelling Variants of "robo"
Frequency rank: #2,424 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Spanish index: