celosía
[seloˈsia]
The verdict
“celosía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,327 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,327
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tablero calado para cerrar ventanas, que impide ser visto pero no impide ver y deja penetrar la luz y el aire. Normalmente es de madera, pero puede ser de piedra u otros materiales.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | celosía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seloˈsia] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “celosía” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
celosía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,327 among 77,812 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [seloˈsia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tablero calado para cerrar ventanas, que impide ser visto pero no impide ver y deja penetrar la luz y el aire. Normalmente es de madera, pero puede ser de piedra u otros materiales.".
No misspelling variants are generated for celosía in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 celosía, spelled C-E-L-O-S-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Tablero calado para cerrar ventanas, que impide ser visto pero no impide ver y deja penetrar la luz y el aire. Normalmente es de madera, pero puede ser de piedra u otros materiales.
This word in other languages
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 “celosía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-E-L-O-S-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [seloˈsia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.