tarso
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,441
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tarso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de los huesos pequeños y muy articulados que forman la estructura ósea del pie de los tetrápodos, desde la articulación del tobillo hasta el comienzo de los dedos Pronounced [ˈt̪aɾso]. Often confused with tas and tro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tarso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪aɾso] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tarso is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪aɾso]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,441 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for tarso, with forms such as "atrso", "tarsso", and "tasro". 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, "tas", "tro", "Tiro", 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 tarso, spelled T-A-R-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de los huesos pequeños y muy articulados que forman la estructura ósea del pie de los tetrápodos, desde la articulación del tobillo hasta el comienzo de los dedos
- 2Zona basal de la pata de los invertebrados
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atrso,tarsso,tasro,traso,ttarso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tarso
Misspelling Variants of "tarso"
Frequency rank: #47,441 in Spanish
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