camello
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,594
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
camello is aSpanishnoun. It 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 ... Pronounced [kaˈmeʝo]. Often confused with cuello and Camilo.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for camello is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for camello, with forms such as "acmello", "caemllo", and "camelo". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "cuello", "Camilo", "canelo", 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 camello, spelled C-A-M-E-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acmello,caemllo,camelo,camelol,camlelo,cammello,ccamello,cmaello
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "camello"
Frequency rank: #21,594 in Spanish
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