rojo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,273
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rojo is anSpanishadj. It means: Del color percibido por el ojo humano de la luz con una longitud de onda entre 630 nanómetros y 760 nanómetros. Convencionalmente se considera uno de los siete del arcoíris o espectro solar. :* Col... Pronounced [ˈroxo]. It ranks #1,273 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with rol and ron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rojo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈroxo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rojo is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈroxo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,273 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for rojo, with forms such as "orjo", "rjoo", and "rojjo". 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 rojo, spelled R-O-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Del color percibido por el ojo humano de la luz con una longitud de onda entre 630 nanómetros y 760 nanómetros. Convencionalmente se considera uno de los siete del arcoíris o espectro solar. :* Color: .
- 2De color amarillo parecido al oro, especialmente dicho del cabello de una persona.
- 3Dicho del cabello, de color rojizo o anaranjado.
- 4Que pertenece o concierne al comunismo, socialismo, o la izquierda política.
- 5En particular, propio de, relativo a, o partidario del bando republicano en la Guerra Civil Española.
- 6Que pertenece o concierne al Club Atlético Independiente, o es hincha de este equipo argentino.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orjo,rjoo,rojjo,rooj,rrojo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rojo
Misspelling Variants of "rojo"
Frequency rank: #1,273 in Spanish
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