camello

Name: camello, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[kaˈmeʝo]

/[kaˈmeʝo]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“camello” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,594
frequency rank, Spanish: 8,288
“C” headwords: 8
tracked misspellings: 16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Camelus spp.) Cualquiera de dos especies de mamíferos ungulados nativos del Viejo Mundo, adaptados a la vida en hábitats muy secos. Almacenan nutrientes y líquido en protuberancias ubicadas en el ...

Corpus desk

Index ES-camello · camello · Spanish

camello · rank #21,594 · 8 variants · 16 confusables

FREQ-MID #21,594
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
VAR-MID 8 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,288
PHOTO-FINISH cambiaba

Nearest frequency peer: cambiaba (-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.

camarera

78,410
camarón

78,409
cambiaba

78,408
camello

78,407
carpetas

78,406
catalizador

78,404

What this shows “camello” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

camello vs cuello

71% similar

camello vs Camilo

57% similar

camello vs canelo

71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for camello
Property	Value
Headword	camello
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[kaˈmeʝo]
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#21,594
Misspellings tracked	8
Confusable pairs	16
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “camello”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.camellocae aquí:

#21,594

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “cambiaba” (#21,593), “carpetas” (#21,595), “camarón” (#21,592). Entre 8,288 lemas con “C”, “camello” va en #21,594. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around camello (IPA [kaˈmeʝo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,594 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for camello, with forms such as "acmello", "caemllo", and "camelo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "cuello", "Camilo", "canelo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is camello, spelled C-A-M-E-L-L-O.

Definition

1
(Camelus spp.) Cualquiera de dos especies de mamíferos ungulados nativos del Viejo Mundo, adaptados a la vida en hábitats muy secos. Almacenan nutrientes y líquido en protuberancias ubicadas en el lomo (jorobas), pudiendo sobrevivir sin beber varias semanas. Son empleados con animales de carga por los nativos de esas regiones.
2
(Camelus bactrianus) En particular, la especie de camello natural del Asia Central, distintiva por poseer dos jorobas, en contraposición al dromedario (C. dromedarius), nativo del norte de África y el Oriente Medio.
3
Persona que se dedica al tráfico de drogas psicotrópicas, especialmente al por menor.

Synonyms

narco traficante

This word in other languages

camel(English)chameau(Français)Kamel(Deutsch)camelo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

acmello
caemllo
camelo
camelol
camlelo
cammello
ccamello
cmaello

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of camello - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "camello"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "camello"?

"camello" is spelled C-A-M-E-L-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kaˈmeʝo].

What does "camello" mean?

As a noun, "camello" means: (Camelus spp.) Cualquiera de dos especies de mamíferos ungulados nativos del Viejo Mundo, adaptados a la vida en hábitats muy secos. Almacenan nutrientes y líquido en protuberancias ubicadas en el ...

What words are commonly confused with "camello"?

"camello" is commonly confused with "cuello", "Camilo", "canelo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "camello"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "camello" is [kaˈmeʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "camello" come from?

"camello" is a Spanish word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "camello", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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