sólo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sólo is 4 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsolo]. Corpus data places it at rank #127 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grafía alternativa de solo (adverbio). Cada vez que deba entenderse como equivalente de solamente y sea posible la confusión con el adjetivo homónimo, es optativo tildar la palabra para desambiguar.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sólo, with forms such as "slóo", "ssólo", and "sóllo". 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, "son", "soy", "sos", 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 sólo, spelled S-Ó-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.