tronco

/[ˈt̪ɾõŋko]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,050

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

tronco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuerpo de un árbol, tallo sin considerar las ramas. Pronounced [ˈt̪ɾõŋko]. It ranks #9,050 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with truco and trono.

Key facts for tronco
PropertyValue
Headwordtronco
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈt̪ɾõŋko]
Letters6
Frequency rank#9,050
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tronco is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ɾõŋko]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,050 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for tronco, with forms such as "rtonco", "tornco", and "trnoco". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "truco", "trono", "trozo", 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 tronco, spelled T-R-O-N-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cuerpo de un árbol, tallo sin considerar las ramas.
  2. 2
    Parte principal del cuerpo de un ser humano o de un animal sin considerar la cabeza o las extremidades.
  3. 3
    Parte principal de un vaso sanguíneo o de un nervio.
  4. 4
    Cuerpo truncado, como un tronco de cono o un tronco de pirámide.
  5. 5
    Colega, amigo.
  6. 6
    Ascendencia común resultante de una o varias familias.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rtonco,tornco,trnoco,trocno,troncco,tronnco,tronoc,trronco,ttronco

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tronco

Misspelling Variants of "tronco"

rtonco6tornco6trnoco6trocno6troncco7tronnco7tronoc6trronco7
Misspelling Variants of "tronco"

Frequency rank: #9,050 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tronco"?
"tronco" is spelled T-R-O-N-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt̪ɾõŋko].
What does "tronco" mean?
As a noun, "tronco" means: Cuerpo de un árbol, tallo sin considerar las ramas.
What words are commonly confused with "tronco"?
"tronco" is commonly confused with "truco", "trono", "trozo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tronco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tronco" is [ˈt̪ɾõŋko]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tronco" come from?
"tronco" 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.