hélice
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,828
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
hélice is aSpanishnoun. It means: Curva tridimensional que corta a las generatrices de un cilindro recto con un ángulo constante. Pronounced [ˈelise]. Often confused with hice and helio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hélice |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈelise] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hélice is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈelise]. Corpus data places it at rank #31,828 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for hélice, with forms such as "hhélice", "hléice", and "héilce". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hice", "helio", 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 hélice, spelled H-É-L-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Curva tridimensional que corta a las generatrices de un cilindro recto con un ángulo constante.
- 2Propulsor empleado en náutica y aeronáutica, conformado por varias palas unidas a un eje que gira a alta velocidad, desplazando el vehículo hacia delante por el diferencial de presión que así se crea. Aunque la forma del propulsor no es helicoidal, el recorrido que realizan los extremos exteriores de las palas al avanzar el vehículo describe una hélice₁, a lo que debe su nombre.
- 3Parte del oído externo que comprende desde el orificio exterior del canal auditivo hasta el lóbulo de la oreja.
- 4Nombre dado a los moluscos gasterópodos, cubiertos de una concha en espiral, que viven tanto en la tierra como en el agua.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhélice,hléice,héilce,hélcie,hélicce,héliec,hélise,héllice,éhlice
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hélice
Misspelling Variants of "hélice"
Frequency rank: #31,828 in Spanish
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