zanco
Letters
5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
zanco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada uno de dos palos altos y dispuestos con sendas horquillas, en que se afirman y atan los pies. Sirven para andar sin mojarse por donde hay agua, y también para juegos de agilidad y equilibrio. Pronounced [ˈsãŋko].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zanco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsãŋko] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for zanco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsãŋko]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zanco in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 zanco, spelled Z-A-N-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada uno de dos palos altos y dispuestos con sendas horquillas, en que se afirman y atan los pies. Sirven para andar sin mojarse por donde hay agua, y también para juegos de agilidad y equilibrio.
- 2Cada uno de los palos o astas que, con sus grímpolas, se ponen en las cabezas de los masteleros cuando se quitan los mastelerillos de juanete.
- 3Zanca (parte de la pata de un ave).
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