sello
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,550
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sello is aSpanishnoun. It means: Altorrelieve de un texto, signo o figura que, previamente entintado, se emplea para estamparlo en un documento. Pronounced [ˈseʝo]. It ranks #4,550 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with seo and sólo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sello |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈseʝo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sello is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈseʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,550 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for sello, with forms such as "cello", "esllo", and "selo". 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, "seo", "sólo", "sexo", 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 sello, spelled S-E-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Altorrelieve de un texto, signo o figura que, previamente entintado, se emplea para estamparlo en un documento.
- 2Marca que deja un sello₁
- 3Pieza de papel, lacre u otro material, estampada con un sello₂ oficial, que se emplea para indicar la validez de un documento.
- 4En particular, aquel que indica el franqueo de una carta o paquete.
- 5Cierre marcado con un sello₂ que garantiza que su contenido no ha sido violado.
- 6Persona u oficina destinada a la aplicación de sellos₃ oficiales.
- 7Anillo que lleva un sello₁, habitualmente un blasón o monograma.
- 8Señal distintiva que denota el fabricante o productor de una mercancía, en especial artística.
- 9Por extensión, persona jurídica que posee uno o más sellos₈
- 10Figuradamente, señal distintiva que indica el carácter propio e idiosincrático de algo.
- 11Cara de una moneda opuesta a la que indica su valor nominal.
- 12Cápsula de receptáculo de almidón.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cello,esllo,selo,selol,slelo,ssello
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sello
Misspelling Variants of "sello"
Frequency rank: #4,550 in Spanish
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