culo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,474
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
culo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de la musculatura de la parte posterior de la cadera. Pronounced [ˈkulo]. It ranks #1,474 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cup and cum.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | culo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkulo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for culo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkulo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,474 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for culo, with forms such as "cculo", "cluo", and "cullo". 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, "cup", "cum", "cut", 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 culo, spelled C-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de la musculatura de la parte posterior de la cadera.
- 2Por metonimia, extremo terminal del tubo digestivo, constituido por un esfínter voluntario recubierto de mucosa, siendo una abertura a través de la cual las heces salen del cuerpo.
- 3Por analogía, conjunto de la musculatura de las ancas de los cuadrúpedos.
- 4Extremo posterior o basal de un objeto.
- 5Pequeña cantidad de líquido que queda en un recipiente.
- 6Cara plana de la taba.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cculo,cluo,cullo,cuol,uclo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for culo
Misspelling Variants of "culo"
Frequency rank: #1,474 in Spanish
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