sargazo

/[saɾˈɣ̞aso]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#71,425

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sargazo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Sargassum) Alga marina de color pardo que se encuentra en las costas de playas tropicales. Pronounced [saɾˈɣ̞aso].

Key facts for sargazo
PropertyValue
Headwordsargazo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[saɾˈɣ̞aso]
Letters7
Frequency rank#71,425
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sargazo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sargazo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saɾˈɣ̞aso]. Corpus data places it at rank #71,425 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for sargazo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 sargazo, spelled S-A-R-G-A-Z-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Sargassum) Alga marina de color pardo que se encuentra en las costas de playas tropicales.
  2. 2
    (Macrocystis pyrifera) Alga marina de color pardo que se encuentra en el Pacífico y el sur del Atlántico, es el alga más grande del mundo y puede formar bosques submarinos. Está fija al sustrato y posee cistos que le ayudan a flotar.

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Frequency rank: #71,425 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sargazo"?
"sargazo" is spelled S-A-R-G-A-Z-O. The IPA pronunciation is [saɾˈɣ̞aso].
What does "sargazo" mean?
As a noun, "sargazo" means: (Sargassum) Alga marina de color pardo que se encuentra en las costas de playas tropicales.
How do you pronounce "sargazo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sargazo" is [saɾˈɣ̞aso]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sargazo" come from?
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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.