amarillo
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,755
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
amarillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Color percibido por el ojo humano de la luz con una longitud de onda entre 565 nanómetros y 590 nanómetros. Se considera tradicionalmente el tercer color del arcoíris o espectro solar. Similar a fr... Pronounced [amaˈɾiʝo]. It ranks #3,755 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with amarillos and armadillo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amarillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [amaˈɾiʝo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for amarillo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [amaˈɾiʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,755 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 amarillo, with forms such as "aamrillo", "amairllo", and "amarilo". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "amarillos", "armadillo", "amarilla", 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 amarillo, spelled A-M-A-R-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Color percibido por el ojo humano de la luz con una longitud de onda entre 565 nanómetros y 590 nanómetros. Se considera tradicionalmente el tercer color del arcoíris o espectro solar. Similar a frutos como la piña, maracuyá, plátanos, limones, etc.; así como lácteos como la mantequilla y algunos tipos de queso.
- 2Sustancia colorante que tiñe de amarillo₁.
- 3Modorra, adormecimiento del gusano de seda con el tiempo gris cuando es pequeño.
- 4Nombre de varias plantas americanas con flores amarillas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aamrillo,amairllo,amarilo,amarilol,amarlilo,amarrillo,ammarillo,amraillo,maarillo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amarillo
Misspelling Variants of "amarillo"
Frequency rank: #3,755 in Spanish
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