velcro

/[ˈbelkɾo]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#70,711

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

velcro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sistema de cierre y apertura rápido y sencillo. Consiste en dos cintas de tela que deben fijarse en las superficies a unir mediante cosido o pegado. Una de las cintas posee unas pequeñas púas flexi... Pronounced [ˈbelkɾo].

Key facts for velcro
PropertyValue
Headwordvelcro
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈbelkɾo]
Letters6
Frequency rank#70,711
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of velcro in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for velcro is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbelkɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,711 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sistema de cierre y apertura rápido y sencillo. Consiste en dos cintas de tela que deben fijarse en las superficies a unir mediante cosido o pegado. Una de las cintas posee unas pequeñas púas flexi...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for velcro in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 velcro, spelled V-E-L-C-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sistema de cierre y apertura rápido y sencillo. Consiste en dos cintas de tela que deben fijarse en las superficies a unir mediante cosido o pegado. Una de las cintas posee unas pequeñas púas flexibles que acaban en forma de gancho y que por simple presión se enganchan a la otra cinta cubierta de fibras enmarañadas que forman bucles y que permiten el agarre.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #70,711 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "velcro"?
"velcro" is spelled V-E-L-C-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbelkɾo].
What does "velcro" mean?
As a noun, "velcro" means: Sistema de cierre y apertura rápido y sencillo. Consiste en dos cintas de tela que deben fijarse en las superficies a unir mediante cosido o pegado. Una de las cintas posee unas pequeñas púas flexi...
How do you pronounce "velcro"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "velcro" is [ˈbelkɾo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "velcro" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.