zanco

/[ˈsãŋko]/ noun

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].

Key facts for zanco
PropertyValue
Headwordzanco
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈsãŋko]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

zanco is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Cada 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.
  3. 3
    Zanca (parte de la pata de un ave).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zanco"?
"zanco" is spelled Z-A-N-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsãŋko].
What does "zanco" mean?
As a noun, "zanco" 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.
How do you pronounce "zanco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "zanco" is [ˈsãŋko]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "zanco" come from?
"zanco" 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.