celos
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,964
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
celos is aSpanishnoun. It means: Recelo de que la persona amada haya mudado o mude su cariño. Pronounced [ˈselos]. It ranks #7,964 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ceo and ces.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | celos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈselos] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for celos is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈselos]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,964 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for celos, with forms such as "ccelos", "cellos", and "celoss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ceo", "ces", "cos", 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 celos, spelled C-E-L-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recelo de que la persona amada haya mudado o mude su cariño.
- 2Recelo que alguien siente de que cualquier cosa que disfrute o pretenda llegue a ser alcanzado por otra persona.
- 3Envidia.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccelos,cellos,celoss,ceols,cleos,eclos,selos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for celos
Misspelling Variants of "celos"
Frequency rank: #7,964 in Spanish
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