ello
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#400
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
2
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ello is aSpanishpron. It means: Nominativo del pronombre personal de tercera persona en género neutro. Con preposición, empléase también en el caso oblicuo (o preposicional). Pronounced [ˈeʝo]. It ranks #400 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with eso and evo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ello |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | [ˈeʝo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ello is 4 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #400 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 2 documented wrong-spelling variants for ello, including "elol" and "lelo". 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, "eso", "evo", "els", 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 ello, spelled E-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nominativo del pronombre personal de tercera persona en género neutro. Con preposición, empléase también en el caso oblicuo (o preposicional).
- 2Precedido de algunas personas del verbo ser y de ciertos adverbios de tiempo o nombres que lo denoten, tiene la misma significación que ella.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elol,lelo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ello
Misspelling Variants of "ello"
Frequency rank: #400 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Spanish index: