seco
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,198
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
seco is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no tiene agua, que no tiene humedad. Pronounced [ˈseko]. It ranks #4,198 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with so and ser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈseko] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for seco is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈseko]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,198 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for seco, with forms such as "ceco", "esco", and "sceo". 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, "so", "ser", "sed", 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 seco, spelled S-E-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no tiene agua, que no tiene humedad.
- 2Dícese de las bebidas que no son dulces.
- 3Que es áspero, directo, sin suavizantes.
- 4Dicho de una persona, de genio arisco o de trato difícil.
- 5Sin dinero.
- 6Harto o cansado de alguien.
- 7Dormido.
- 8Sobrio.
- 9Que tiene mucha experiencia o habilidad en alguna disciplina o tarea.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ceco,esco,sceo,secco,seoc,sseco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for seco
Misspelling Variants of "seco"
Frequency rank: #4,198 in Spanish
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