trigo
[ˈt̪ɾiɣ̞o]
The verdict
“trigo” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #6,602 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,602
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (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...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trigo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ɾiɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trigo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for trigo is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for trigo, with forms such as "rtigo", "tirgo", and "trgio". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tro", "trío", "trip", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is trigo, spelled T-R-I-G-O.
Definition
- 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.
- 2Por 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.
- 3El grano del trigo₁.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtigo,tirgo,trgio,triggo,triog,trrigo,ttrigo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trigo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “trigo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-R-I-G-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈt̪ɾiɣ̞o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tro” - see the side-by-side comparison. trigo vs tro
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.