sarcasmo
[saɾˈkasmo]
The verdict
“sarcasmo” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #9,202 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,202
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Un tipo de ironía que se realiza con el fin de herir u ofender a una persona o institución.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarcasmo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [saɾˈkasmo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sarcasmo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sarcasmo is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saɾˈkasmo]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,202 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Un tipo de ironía que se realiza con el fin de herir u ofender a una persona o institución.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sarcasmo, with forms such as "asrcasmo", "sacrasmo", and "saracsmo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is sarcasmo, spelled S-A-R-C-A-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1Un tipo de ironía que se realiza con el fin de herir u ofender a una persona o institución.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asrcasmo,sacrasmo,saracsmo,sarcamso,sarcasmmo,sarcasom,sarcassmo,sarccasmo,sarcsamo,sarrcasmo,sracasmo,ssarcasmo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sarcasmo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “sarcasmo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-A-R-C-A-S-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [saɾˈkasmo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.