rulo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,196
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rulo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Bola gruesa u otra cosa redonda que rueda fácilmente. Pronounced [ˈrulo]. Often confused with run and Rus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rulo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrulo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rulo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrulo]. Corpus data places it at rank #46,196 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 rulo, with forms such as "rluo", "rrulo", and "rullo". 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, "run", "Rus", "Rut", 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 rulo, spelled R-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bola gruesa u otra cosa redonda que rueda fácilmente.
- 2Piedra de figura de cono truncado, sujeta por un eje horizontal, que gira con movimientos de rotación y traslación alrededor del árbol del alfarje en los molinos de aceite. En algunos alfarjes se sustituye el rulo por volanderas.
- 3Cilindro muy pesado de piedra o de hierro, que se hace rodar para allanar y apretar la tierra, o para consolidar el firme de las carreteras.
- 4En peluquería, cilindro de plástico, hueco, en el que se enrolla un mechón de cabello para hacer un rizo.
- 5Porción de cabello que gira sobre sí mismo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rluo,rrulo,rullo,ruol,urlo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rulo
Misspelling Variants of "rulo"
Frequency rank: #46,196 in Spanish
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