quelvo

/[ˈkelβ̞o]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

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similar word pairs

quelvo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada uno de los dos trozos de madera cilíndricos que, dispuestos transversalmente al tejedor, sostienen y tensan el tejido en un telar. Pronounced [ˈkelβ̞o].

Key facts for quelvo
PropertyValue
Headwordquelvo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkelβ̞o]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quelvo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for quelvo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkelβ̞o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quelvo 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 quelvo, spelled Q-U-E-L-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cada uno de los dos trozos de madera cilíndricos que, dispuestos transversalmente al tejedor, sostienen y tensan el tejido en un telar.
  2. 2
    Por extensión, telar cuadrado de grandes dimensiones que se usa horizontalmente, sostenido por soportes de unos 30 cm de altura, de modo que hay que tejer arrodillado. Toma las estructuras y sus nombres del telar mapuche, que es vertical. En él se confeccionan principalmente frazadas, ponchos y sabanillas.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quelvo"?
"quelvo" is spelled Q-U-E-L-V-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkelβ̞o].
What does "quelvo" mean?
As a noun, "quelvo" means: Cada uno de los dos trozos de madera cilíndricos que, dispuestos transversalmente al tejedor, sostienen y tensan el tejido en un telar.
How do you pronounce "quelvo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quelvo" is [ˈkelβ̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quelvo" come from?
"quelvo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.