spero
/ˈspeː.roː/
The verdict
“spero” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #75,910 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,910
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esperar, tener esperanzas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-spero · spero · Spanish
spero · rank #75,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,910
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH stamp
Nearest frequency peer: stamp (+1 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “spero”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sobreseído
sobreseído
24,097 corpus weight
- sociópata
sociópata
24,096 corpus weight
- soeces
soeces
24,095 corpus weight
- sonrías
sonrías
24,093 corpus weight
- spero
spero
24,091 corpus weight
- stamp
stamp
24,090 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “spero” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈspeː.roː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “spero” en español
Rare enough to double-check
spero is uncommon Spanish at frequency #75,910 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈspeː.roː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for spero in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is spero, spelled S-P-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1Esperar, tener esperanzas.
- 2Confiar, creer.
- 3Temer.
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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