cameo
[kaˈmeo]
The verdict
“cameo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,433 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,433
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Breve intervención de una persona muy famosa, especialmente un actor o una actriz, en una película o un programa de televisión, generalmente sin figurar en los créditos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cameo · cameo · Spanish
cameo · rank #55,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,433
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH camarógrafos
Nearest frequency peer: camarógrafos (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cameo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- calculadas
calculadas
44,572 corpus weight
- calificador
calificador
44,571 corpus weight
- camarógrafos
camarógrafos
44,569 corpus weight
- cameo
cameo
44,568 corpus weight
- caminemos
caminemos
44,567 corpus weight
- campanillas
campanillas
44,566 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cameo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cameo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈmeo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cameo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cameo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,433 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈmeo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Breve intervención de una persona muy famosa, especialmente un actor o una actriz, en una película o un programa de televisión, generalmente sin figurar en los créditos.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cameo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 cameo, spelled C-A-M-E-O.
Definition
- 1Breve intervención de una persona muy famosa, especialmente un actor o una actriz, en una película o un programa de televisión, generalmente sin figurar en los créditos.
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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