bellaco
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,723
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bellaco is anSpanishadj. It means: De ingenio astuto e intención aviesa, hábil para el engaño. Pronounced [beˈʝako].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bellaco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [beˈʝako] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bellaco is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [beˈʝako]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,723 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bellaco 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 bellaco, spelled B-E-L-L-A-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De ingenio astuto e intención aviesa, hábil para el engaño.
- 2Diestro y sutil para planear o realizar una acción, especialmente sin despertar sospechas.
- 3Dicho de un caballo, imperfectamente adiestrado y de mal talante.
- 4Que tiene coraje para enfrentar una situación o momento adversos.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #52,723 in Spanish
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