secreto
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,793
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
secreto is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no se da a conocer a los demás, que queda en el conocimiento de pocas personas. Pronounced [seˈkɾet̪o]. It ranks #1,793 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sereno and secretos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secreto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [seˈkɾet̪o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for secreto is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seˈkɾet̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,793 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for secreto, with forms such as "cecreto", "escreto", and "scereto". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sereno", "secretos", "secret", 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 secreto, spelled S-E-C-R-E-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no se da a conocer a los demás, que queda en el conocimiento de pocas personas.
- 2Que permanece sin exteriorizarse, que se guarda dentro de sí mismo.
- 3Que se hace de forma que no se sabe lo que ha hecho cada cual.
- 4Propio o relativo a los secretos de estado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cecreto,escreto,scereto,seccreto,secerto,secreot,secretto,secrreto,secrteo,serceto,ssecreto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for secreto
Misspelling Variants of "secreto"
Frequency rank: #1,793 in Spanish
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