vaselina
[baseˈlina]
The verdict
“vaselina” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #33,366. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,366
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12,062
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Crema o pomada, hecha a partir de hidrocarburos, que tiene propiedades lubricantes y curativas para la piel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaselina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baseˈlina] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vaselina” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around vaselina (IPA [baseˈlina]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,366 among 12,062 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for vaselina, with forms such as "avselina", "baselina", and "vacelina". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is vaselina, spelled V-A-S-E-L-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Crema o pomada, hecha a partir de hidrocarburos, que tiene propiedades lubricantes y curativas para la piel.
- 2Tiro al arco suave y con forma de globo que suele hacerse para colgar al arquero rival cuando está adelantado.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avselina
- baselina
- vacelina
- vaeslina
- vaseilna
- vaselian
- vaselinna
- vasellina
- vaselnia
- vasleina
- vasselina
- vsaelina
- vvaselina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vaselina - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “vaselina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-A-S-E-L-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [baseˈlina] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.