chaleco
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,542
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
chaleco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Prenda de vestir que cubre el torso desde el cuello a la cintura, sin mangas, que se emplea como abrigo u ornamentación por encima de la camisa. Pronounced [t͡ʃaˈleko]. Often confused with checo and charco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaleco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃaˈleko] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chaleco is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃaˈleko]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,542 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for chaleco, with forms such as "cahleco", "cchaleco", and "chaelco". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "checo", "charco", "chalet", 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 chaleco, spelled C-H-A-L-E-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prenda de vestir que cubre el torso desde el cuello a la cintura, sin mangas, que se emplea como abrigo u ornamentación por encima de la camisa.
- 2Prenda tejida que cubre el torso y los brazos. Se usa encima de la camisa y va abierta por delante, pero con posibilidad de abotonarla o cerrarla por otros medios. Usualmente el escote está reservado para las de uso masculino.
- 3En la mitología chilota, especie de manto que se ponen los brujos para poder volar. Estaría hecho con la piel del pecho de una doncella muerta.
- 4Cualquier prenda que cubre el torso desde el cuello a la cintura, con mangas largas, y para ponerse encima de algo más liviano, como una camiseta o una camisa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahleco,cchaleco,chaelco,chalceo,chalecco,chaleoc,challeco,chhaleco,chlaeco,hcaleco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chaleco
Misspelling Variants of "chaleco"
Frequency rank: #14,542 in Spanish
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