helicóptero
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,027
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
helicóptero is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vehículo para desplazarse por el aire, que posee una gran hélice horizontal central (llamada rotor), para elevarse, descender y avanzar, y otra hélice vertical más pequeña en la cola, para la estab... Pronounced [eliˈkopt̪eɾo]. It ranks #7,027 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with helicópteros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | helicóptero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eliˈkopt̪eɾo] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for helicóptero is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eliˈkopt̪eɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,027 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for helicóptero, with forms such as "ehlicóptero", "heilcóptero", and "helcióptero". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "helicópteros", 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 helicóptero, spelled H-E-L-I-C-Ó-P-T-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vehículo para desplazarse por el aire, que posee una gran hélice horizontal central (llamada rotor), para elevarse, descender y avanzar, y otra hélice vertical más pequeña en la cola, para la estabilidad. Algunos aparatos pesados usan dos rotores de movimiento opuesto y ninguna hélice vertical.
- 2Libélula.
- 3Postura sexual en donde el hombre yace boca arriba y la mujer se sienta sobre su pene y da vueltas conservando el pene en su interior.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehlicóptero,heilcóptero,helcióptero,heliccóptero,helicpótero,helicópetro,helicópptero,helicópteor,helicópterro,helicóptreo,helicópttero,helicótpero,heliócptero,hellicóptero,hhelicóptero,hleicóptero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for helicóptero
Misspelling Variants of "helicóptero"
Frequency rank: #7,027 in Spanish
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