secco
/ˈsɛk.ko/
The verdict
“secco” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,409 among 34,953 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,409
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Seco
Corpus desk
Index ES-secco · secco · Spanish
secco · rank #82,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,409
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 34,953
- PHOTO-FINISH selling
Nearest frequency peer: selling (+4 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “secco”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Sabatino
Sabatino
17,601 corpus weight
- sacarás
sacarás
17,598 corpus weight
- secco
secco
17,592 corpus weight
- selling
selling
17,588 corpus weight
- selo
selo
17,587 corpus weight
- shared
shared
17,583 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “secco” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsɛk.ko/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “secco” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
secco is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,409 among 34,953 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈsɛk.ko/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Seco".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for secco, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is secco, spelled S-E-C-C-O.
Definition
- 1Seco
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "secco", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.