relámpago
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,805
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
relámpago is aSpanishnoun. It means: Resplandor difuso en el interior de las nubes de tormenta, de décimas de segundo de duración, producido por la incandescencia del cuerpo conductor (generalmente el aire) al ser recorrido por cargas... Pronounced [reˈlãmpaɣ̞o]. Often confused with relámpagos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relámpago |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reˈlãmpaɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for relámpago is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈlãmpaɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,805 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for relámpago, with forms such as "erlámpago", "rellámpago", and "relmápago". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "relámpagos", 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 relámpago, spelled R-E-L-Á-M-P-A-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Resplandor difuso en el interior de las nubes de tormenta, de décimas de segundo de duración, producido por la incandescencia del cuerpo conductor (generalmente el aire) al ser recorrido por cargas electrostáticas que saltan de un campo eléctrico a otro debido a la diferencia de potencial existente entre ambos.
- 2Trazo luminoso de intenso brillo e igual mecanismo de producción, que suele ir acompañado por un estampido llamado trueno, que es producido por la brusca dilatación del aire incandescente.
- 3Aparato de iluminación.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erlámpago,rellámpago,relmápago,relámapgo,relámmpago,relámpaggo,relámpaog,relámpgao,relámppago,relápmago,reálmpago,rleámpago,rrelámpago
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "relámpago"
Frequency rank: #17,805 in Spanish
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