vela
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,058
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vela is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cilindro de cera o grasa, atravesado longitudinalmente por una mecha o pábilo, usado para alumbrar. Pronounced [ˈbela]. It ranks #5,058 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with vez and ver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbela] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vela is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbela]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,058 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for vela, with forms such as "evla", "veal", and "vlea". 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, "vez", "ver", "veo", 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 vela, spelled V-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cilindro de cera o grasa, atravesado longitudinalmente por una mecha o pábilo, usado para alumbrar.
- 2Acción y efecto de velar.
- 3Período durante el que se vela.
- 4Trabajo nocturno.
- 5Asistencia delante del Santísimo Sacramento.
- 6Romería a algunos santuarios.
- 7Centinela nocturno o guardia que cuidaba un lugar durante la noche.
- 8Acción de acompañar al fallecido piadosamente en las horas previas al entierro.
- 9Reprimenda o reconvención.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evla,veal,vlea,vvela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vela
Misspelling Variants of "vela"
Frequency rank: #5,058 in Spanish
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