truco
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,445
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
truco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Medio artificioso y planeado con el que se obtienen ciertos efectos inesperados o poco comunes en artes de diversa índole tal como el ilusionismo, el teatro, la fotografía etc. Pronounced [ˈt̪ɾuko]. It ranks #5,445 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tuvo and tuyo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | truco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ɾuko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for truco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ɾuko]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,445 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 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for truco, with forms such as "rtuco", "trcuo", and "trruco". 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, "tuvo", "tuyo", "tubo", 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 truco, spelled T-R-U-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Medio artificioso y planeado con el que se obtienen ciertos efectos inesperados o poco comunes en artes de diversa índole tal como el ilusionismo, el teatro, la fotografía etc.
- 2Juego de cartas con la baraja española, en el que se enfrentan dos equipos que deben sumar puntos mediante el envido o el truco. Se puede jugar de a dos, cuatro o seis jugadores.
- 3Específicamente en sentido propio, es la segunda fase de una mano en el juego del truco que se juega una vez que ambos jugadores tuvieron la oportunidad de cantar (o dejar pasar) el envido y la gana quien gane dos de las tres rondas jugadas.
- 4Ardid, medio usado con el fin de entrampar o engañar.
- 5Cencerro de tamaño más grande que el normal.
- 6Conjunto de habilidades adquiridas en el ejercicio de una disciplina.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtuco,trcuo,trruco,trucco,truoc,ttruco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for truco
Misspelling Variants of "truco"
Frequency rank: #5,445 in Spanish
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