tercero
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,024
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
tercero is anSpanishadj. It means: Que en una serie de tres o más cosas, personas o animales, ocupa el lugar número tres en importancia, valor, ubicación, etc. Pronounced [t̪eɾˈseɾo]. It ranks #3,024 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with terco and tercio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tercero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [t̪eɾˈseɾo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tercero is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eɾˈseɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,024 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 tercero, with forms such as "etrcero", "tecrero", and "terccero". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "terco", "tercio", "torero", 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 tercero, spelled T-E-R-C-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que en una serie de tres o más cosas, personas o animales, ocupa el lugar número tres en importancia, valor, ubicación, etc.
- 2El que arbitra o media entre dos partes.
- 3Dicho de una parte o porción, que es una de las tres en que está dividido algo.
- 4Se dice de varias órdenes religiosas católicas, compuestas sobre todo por seglares, como las de nuestra señora del Carmen, santo Domingo y san Francisco.
- 5Se dice de los miembros de varias órdenes religiosas católicas, compuestas sobre todo por seglares, como las de nuestra señora del Carmen, santo Domingo y san Francisco.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etrcero,tecrero,terccero,terceor,tercerro,tercreo,terecro,terrcero,tersero,trecero,ttercero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tercero
Misspelling Variants of "tercero"
Frequency rank: #3,024 in Spanish
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