veleta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,319
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
veleta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Aparato que sirve para saber la dirección en la que sopla el viento. Se pone normalmente en la parte más alta de los edificios. Pronounced [beˈlet̪a]. Often confused with veta and venta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veleta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [beˈlet̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for veleta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [beˈlet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #43,319 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for veleta, with forms such as "beleta", "evleta", and "veelta". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "veta", "venta", "Vélez", 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 veleta, spelled V-E-L-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aparato que sirve para saber la dirección en la que sopla el viento. Se pone normalmente en la parte más alta de los edificios.
- 2Por extensión, persona de carácter fluctuante o inestable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: beleta,evleta,veelta,veleat,veletta,velleta,veltea,vleeta,vveleta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for veleta
Misspelling Variants of "veleta"
Frequency rank: #43,319 in Spanish
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