zoco
[ˈsoko]
The verdict
“zoco” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,466 among 220 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,466
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 220
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barrio o zona de una ciudad, en especial del Magreb o el Medio Oriente, en que se fija el mercado callejero.
Corpus desk
Index ES-zoco · zoco · Spanish
zoco · rank #60,466 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,466
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 220
- PHOTO-FINISH Zeit
Nearest frequency peer: Zeit (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “zoco”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- yep
yep
39,539 corpus weight
- yupi
yupi
39,538 corpus weight
- Zavaleta
Zavaleta
39,537 corpus weight
- Zeit
Zeit
39,536 corpus weight
- zoco
zoco
39,535 corpus weight
- íntegros
íntegros
39,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “zoco” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zoco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsoko] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “zoco” en español
Rare enough to double-check
zoco is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,466 among 220 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈsoko]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Barrio o zona de una ciudad, en especial del Magreb o el Medio Oriente, en que se fija el mercado callejero.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for zoco, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is zoco, spelled Z-O-C-O.
Definition
- 1Barrio o zona de una ciudad, en especial del Magreb o el Medio Oriente, en que se fija el mercado callejero.
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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