recelo
[reˈselo]
The verdict
“recelo” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #27,752. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,752
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temor, sospecha o cuidado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-recelo · recelo · Spanish
recelo · rank #27,752 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,752
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH reaparece
Nearest frequency peer: reaparece (-1 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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “recelo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- quedarás
quedarás
72,253 corpus weight
- radares
radares
72,251 corpus weight
- reaparece
reaparece
72,250 corpus weight
- recelo
recelo
72,249 corpus weight
- reclamaba
reclamaba
72,248 corpus weight
- recordada
recordada
72,247 corpus weight
What this shows “recelo” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recelo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reˈselo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “recelo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around recelo (IPA [reˈselo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,752 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Temor, sospecha o cuidado.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for recelo, with forms such as "ercelo", "rceelo", and "reccelo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "recto", "recio", "recen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 recelo, spelled R-E-C-E-L-O.
Definition
- 1Temor, sospecha o cuidado.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recelo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si un cochero nos dejase en plena noche en algún sitio solitario, le entrarían recelos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercelo
- rceelo
- reccelo
- recello
- receol
- recleo
- reeclo
- reselo
- rrecelo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recelo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).