chulo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,902
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chulo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Persona (normalmente del sexo masculino) que lucra con el ejercicio sexual de terceros. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃulo]. Often confused with cul and cuyo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chulo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃulo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chulo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃulo]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,902 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for chulo, with forms such as "cchulo", "chhulo", and "chluo". 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, "cul", "cuyo", "culo", 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 chulo, spelled C-H-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona (normalmente del sexo masculino) que lucra con el ejercicio sexual de terceros.
- 2Asistente que se ocupa de encerrar los animales en el matadero.
- 3Asistente que facilita los utensilios necesarios a los picadores y banderilleros en la lidia de toros.
- 4(Coragyps atratus) Ave carroñera de la familia de los catártidos, nativa de las zonas templadas, subtropicales y tropicales de América, de plumaje negro, cabeza desnuda de color gris, pico recto de color blanquecino, y patas ligeramente palmeadas. Alcanza los 70 cm de largo y los 150 cm de envergadura de alas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchulo,chhulo,chluo,chullo,chuol,cuhlo,hculo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "chulo"
Frequency rank: #17,902 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: