pelo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,328
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pelo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Filamento de queratina que crece en la piel de humanos y animales, cubren parte de la cabeza u otras partes del cuerpo, tiene una raíz bulbosa que nace en los poros de la piel. Pronounced [ˈpelo]. It ranks #1,328 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with po and pro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpelo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pelo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpelo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,328 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pelo, with forms such as "eplo", "pello", and "peol". 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, "po", "pro", "Per", 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 pelo, spelled P-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Filamento de queratina que crece en la piel de humanos y animales, cubren parte de la cabeza u otras partes del cuerpo, tiene una raíz bulbosa que nace en los poros de la piel.
- 2Conjunto o masa de estos filamentos.
- 3Este filamento cuando pertenece a los que cubren la cabeza, por oposición a la barba del rostro y el vello del resto del cuerpo.
- 4Filamento vegetal como el que cubre algunas frutas, tallos u hojas.
- 5Dícese de una distancia o diferencia pequeña o insignificante.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eplo,pello,peol,pleo,ppelo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pelo
Misspelling Variants of "pelo"
Frequency rank: #1,328 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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