millo
[ˈmiʝo]
The verdict
“millo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #50,412 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,412
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nombre dado a diversas especies de hierbas de la familia Poaceae (gramíneas) que producen un grano pequeño utilizado como forraje o en la alimentación humana. Resistente a la sequía, tolerando suel...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | millo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmiʝo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “millo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for millo is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmiʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,412 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for millo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is millo, spelled M-I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Nombre dado a diversas especies de hierbas de la familia Poaceae (gramíneas) que producen un grano pequeño utilizado como forraje o en la alimentación humana. Resistente a la sequía, tolerando suelos arenosos, es un cereal muy cultivado en África y Asia.
- 2(Zea mays) Maíz.
- 3(Sorghum vulgare o Sorghum bicolor) Planta gramínea cultivada desde la más remota antigüedad, de una altura de 1 a 2 metros, cuenta con inflorescencias en panojas y semillas de 3 mm, esféricas y oblongas, de color negro, rojizo y amarillento. Hoy se utiliza mucho menos que antaño para la alimentación humana y como forraje.^([cita requerida])
- 4Palomita. (grano de maíz tostado)
- 5Bola de millo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “millo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-I-L-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmiʝo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.