millo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,412
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
millo is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced [ˈmiʝo].
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for millo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for millo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 millo, spelled M-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
Frequency rank: #50,412 in Spanish
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