terco
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,415
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
terco is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no cambia su opinión o proceder, pese a las razones en sentido contrario. Pronounced [ˈt̪eɾko]. Often confused with tro and Tiro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈt̪eɾko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for terco is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪eɾko]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,415 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for terco, with forms such as "etrco", "tecro", and "tercco". 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, "tro", "Tiro", "toro", 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 terco, spelled T-E-R-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no cambia su opinión o proceder, pese a las razones en sentido contrario.
- 2Se dice de una cosa más dura de lo habitual o difícil de manipular.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etrco,tecro,tercco,teroc,terrco,treco,tterco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for terco
Misspelling Variants of "terco"
Frequency rank: #29,415 in Spanish
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