paleo
[paˈleo]
The verdict
“paleo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #61,800 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,800
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de palear.
Corpus desk
Index ES-paleo · paleo · Spanish
paleo · rank #61,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,800
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH ovalado
Nearest frequency peer: ovalado (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “paleo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- orientadores
orientadores
38,206 corpus weight
- oscilando
oscilando
38,205 corpus weight
- ovalado
ovalado
38,203 corpus weight
- paleo
paleo
38,201 corpus weight
- paragolpes
paragolpes
38,199 corpus weight
- parecéis
parecéis
38,197 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “paleo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paleo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [paˈleo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “paleo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
paleo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #61,800 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [paˈleo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de palear.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paleo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is paleo, spelled P-A-L-E-O.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de palear.
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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