vehículo
[beˈikulo]
The verdict
“vehículo” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #2,959 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,959
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cualquier medio de locomoción o transporte.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vehículo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [beˈikulo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vehículo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vehículo is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [beˈikulo]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,959 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for vehículo, with forms such as "behículo", "evhículo", and "vehcíulo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "vesícula", "vehículos", "versículo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is vehículo, spelled V-E-H-Í-C-U-L-O.
Definition
- 1Cualquier medio de locomoción o transporte.
- 2Transmisor de algo.
- 3Sustancia que se mezcla con un medicamento para darle consistencia o facilitar su asimilación.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: behículo,evhículo,vehcíulo,vehhículo,vehícculo,vehícluo,vehícullo,vehícuol,vehíuclo,veíhculo,vheículo,vvehículo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vehículo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “vehículo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-E-H-Í-C-U-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [beˈikulo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “vesícula” - see the side-by-side comparison. vehículo vs vesícula
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.