capullo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,767
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
capullo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Envoltorio de hilos que fabrican las larvas de algunos insectos para refugiarse durante su metamorfosis al estado adulto. Es propio de los insectos del orden de los lepidópteros (Lepidoptera), al q... Pronounced [kaˈpuʝo]. Often confused with cepillo and cavallo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capullo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈpuʝo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for capullo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈpuʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,767 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 capullo, with forms such as "acpullo", "caplulo", and "cappullo". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "cepillo", "cavallo", "capullos", 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 capullo, spelled C-A-P-U-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Envoltorio de hilos que fabrican las larvas de algunos insectos para refugiarse durante su metamorfosis al estado adulto. Es propio de los insectos del orden de los lepidópteros (Lepidoptera), al que pertenecen mariposas y polillas. Los hilos del capullo del gusano de seda son la fuente de la seda natural.
- 2Flor que todavía no se ha abierto.
- 3Persona que le hace malas pasadas a otras.
- 4Ingenuo o torpe.
- 5Glande.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpullo,caplulo,cappullo,capulo,capulol,caupllo,ccapullo,cpaullo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for capullo
Misspelling Variants of "capullo"
Frequency rank: #24,767 in Spanish
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