reloj
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,440
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
reloj is aSpanishnoun. It means: Máquina dotada de movimiento uniforme, que sirve para medir el tiempo o dividir el día en horas, minutos y segundos. Un peso o un muelle produce, por lo común, el movimiento, que se regula con un p... Pronounced [reˈlox]. It ranks #3,440 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with reo and reto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reloj |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reˈlox] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for reloj is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈlox]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,440 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for reloj, with forms such as "erloj", "reljo", and "relloj". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "reo", "reto", "rezo", 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 reloj, spelled R-E-L-O-J, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Máquina dotada de movimiento uniforme, que sirve para medir el tiempo o dividir el día en horas, minutos y segundos. Un peso o un muelle produce, por lo común, el movimiento, que se regula con un péndulo o un volante, y se transmite a las manecillas por medio de varias ruedas dentadas. Según sus dimensiones, colocación o uso, así el reloj se denomina de torre, de pared, de sobremesa, de bolsillo, de muñeca, etc.
- 2En un circuito digital, la señal que coordina y establece el ritmo al que los subcircuitos secuenciales realizarán sus operaciones o sus transiciones a nuevos estados.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erloj,reljo,relloj,relojj,reolj,rleoj,rreloj
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "reloj"
Frequency rank: #3,440 in Spanish
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