rococó
[rokoˈko]
The verdict
“rococó” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #62,622 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,622
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Movimiento artístico nacido en Francia, que se desarrolla de forma progresiva entre los años 1730 y 1760, aproximadamente. Se caracteriza por el gusto por los colores luminosos, suaves y claros. Pr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rococó |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [rokoˈko] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rococó” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rococó is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [rokoˈko]. Corpus data places it at rank #62,622 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Movimiento artístico nacido en Francia, que se desarrolla de forma progresiva entre los años 1730 y 1760, aproximadamente. Se caracteriza por el gusto por los colores luminosos, suaves y claros. Pr...".
No misspelling variants are generated for rococó in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is rococó, spelled R-O-C-O-C-Ó.
Definition
- 1Movimiento artístico nacido en Francia, que se desarrolla de forma progresiva entre los años 1730 y 1760, aproximadamente. Se caracteriza por el gusto por los colores luminosos, suaves y claros. Predominan las formas inspiradas en la naturaleza, la mitología, la representación de los cuerpos desnudos, el arte oriental y especialmente los temas galantes y amorosos.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “rococó”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-O-C-O-C-Ó - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [rokoˈko] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.