velen
[ˈbelẽn]
The verdict
“velen” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,591 among 1,793 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,591
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de velar o de velarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-velen · velen · Spanish
velen · rank #80,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,591
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH Vedia
Nearest frequency peer: Vedia (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “velen”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- validan
validan
19,413 corpus weight
- vaquilla
vaquilla
19,412 corpus weight
- Vedia
Vedia
19,411 corpus weight
- velen
velen
19,410 corpus weight
- verifico
verifico
19,408 corpus weight
- viajaremos
viajaremos
19,407 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “velen” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | velen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbelẽn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “velen” en español
Rare enough to double-check
velen is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,591 among 1,793 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈbelẽn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for velen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is velen, spelled V-E-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de velar o de velarse.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de velar o del imperativo negativo de velarse.
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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