camaleón
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,395
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
camaleón is aSpanishnoun. It means: (familia Chamaeleonidae) Cualquiera de varias especies de reptiles saurios de pequeño a mediano tamaño, cola prensil, ojos de movimiento independiente y lengua larga y viscosa con la que cazan inse... Pronounced [kamaleˈõn]. Often confused with campeón and camarón.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camaleón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kamaleˈõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for camaleón is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kamaleˈõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,395 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for camaleón, with forms such as "acmaleón", "caamleón", and "camaelón". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "campeón", "camarón", 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 camaleón, spelled C-A-M-A-L-E-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(familia Chamaeleonidae) Cualquiera de varias especies de reptiles saurios de pequeño a mediano tamaño, cola prensil, ojos de movimiento independiente y lengua larga y viscosa con la que cazan insectos. Su característica más notoria es su capacidad de cambiar de color para camuflarse.
- 2Persona inconstante o astuta, que cambia de opinión o actitud por conveniencia.
- 3(Carlina acanthifolia) planta herbácea de la familia Asteraceae que crece en regiones montañosas de Europa. vivaz bienal, espinosa, semejante al cardo, con el tallo rígido.
- 4(Falco sparverius) Ave falconiforme, muy empleada en cetrería, nativa del continente americano, donde se distribuye desde Canadá hasta Tierra del Fuego.
- 5(Anolis porcatus) Lagarto de la familia Polychrotidae, nativo de las Antillas, de pequeño tamaño, cuerpo elongado y coloración verde que puede alterar por mimetismo, a semejanza de los Chamaleonidae, con los que sin embargo no está emparentado.
- 6(Iguana spp.) Cualquiera de dos especies de lagartos nativos de las regiones tropicales de América y el Caribe, caracterizadas por una cresta dorsal, la presencia de grandes escamas tuberculares en el cuello y una longitud que alcanza los dos metros.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acmaleón,caamleón,camaelón,camalenó,camaleónn,camalleón,camalóen,camlaeón,cammaleón,ccamaleón,cmaaleón
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Misspelling Variants of "camaleón"
Frequency rank: #35,395 in Spanish
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