hielo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,187
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
hielo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de helar o de helarse. Pronounced [ˈjelo]. It ranks #3,187 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with hizo and hijo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hielo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjelo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hielo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjelo]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,187 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for hielo, with forms such as "heilo", "hhielo", and "hiello". 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, "hizo", "hijo", "hilo", 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 hielo, spelled H-I-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de helar o de helarse.
- 2Estado sólido del agua.
- 3Por extensión, estado sólido de otros elementos volátiles que forman parte de la atmósfera planetaria.
- 4Figuradamente, falta de afecto o interés entre dos personas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: heilo,hhielo,hiello,hieol,hileo,ihelo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hielo
Misspelling Variants of "hielo"
Frequency rank: #3,187 in Spanish
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