camello
[kaˈmeʝo]
The verdict
“camello” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #21,594 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #21,594
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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 ...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “camello” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for camello is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈmeʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,594 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
- 3Persona que se dedica al tráfico de drogas psicotrópicas, especialmente al por menor.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “camello”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-M-E-L-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈmeʝo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cuello” - see the side-by-side comparison. camello vs cuello
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.