trigo

/[ˈt̪ɾiɣ̞o]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,602

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

trigo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Triticum) Género de plantas de la familia de las gramíneas, cultivado por la humanidad desde hace miles de años por sus granos, con los que se prepara harina para hacer el pan. Es una planta anual... Pronounced [ˈt̪ɾiɣ̞o]. It ranks #6,602 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tro and trío.

Key facts for trigo
PropertyValue
Headwordtrigo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈt̪ɾiɣ̞o]
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,602
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of trigo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for trigo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ɾiɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,602 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 trigo, with forms such as "rtigo", "tirgo", and "trgio". 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", "trío", "trip", 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 trigo, spelled T-R-I-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Triticum) Género de plantas de la familia de las gramíneas, cultivado por la humanidad desde hace miles de años por sus granos, con los que se prepara harina para hacer el pan. Es una planta anual, con flores agrupadas en una espiga. Su fruto es una cariopse rica en almidón.
  2. 2
    Por antonomasia, Triticum aestivum, la planta más ampliamente cultivada del género. Sus granos forman parte de la dieta básica de un gran porcentaje de la población del mundo.
  3. 3
    El grano del trigo₁.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rtigo,tirgo,trgio,triggo,triog,trrigo,ttrigo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for trigo

Misspelling Variants of "trigo"

rtigo5tirgo5trgio5triggo6triog5trrigo6ttrigo6
Misspelling Variants of "trigo"

Frequency rank: #6,602 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "trigo"?
"trigo" is spelled T-R-I-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt̪ɾiɣ̞o].
What does "trigo" mean?
As a noun, "trigo" means: (Triticum) Género de plantas de la familia de las gramíneas, cultivado por la humanidad desde hace miles de años por sus granos, con los que se prepara harina para hacer el pan. Es una planta anual...
What words are commonly confused with "trigo"?
"trigo" is commonly confused with "tro", "trío", "trip". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "trigo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trigo" is [ˈt̪ɾiɣ̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trigo" come from?
"trigo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.