vello
[ˈbeʝo]
The verdict
“vello” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,226) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,226
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pelo, más fino y delgado que el del cuero cabelludo, que recubre la mayor parte de la piel humana.
Corpus desk
Index ES-vello · vello · Spanish
vello · rank #22,226 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,226
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH vejiga
Nearest frequency peer: vejiga (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “vello”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- unirá
unirá
77,778 corpus weight
- valoro
valoro
77,777 corpus weight
- vejiga
vejiga
77,776 corpus weight
- vello
vello
77,775 corpus weight
- vicuña
vicuña
77,774 corpus weight
- viejito
viejito
77,772 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “vello” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | vello |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbeʝo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “vello”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vello is neighbouring look-alikes ("veo", "velo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbeʝo]. Frequency #22,226 among 1,793 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for vello, with forms such as "evllo", "velol", and "vlelo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "veo", "velo", "veto", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is vello, spelled V-E-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Pelo, más fino y delgado que el del cuero cabelludo, que recubre la mayor parte de la piel humana.
- 2Filamento fino y corto que recubre la piel o corteza de determinadas plantas y frutos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vello appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De él salió un pastorcico, // sale llorando y gimiendo, // la cabeza desgreñada, // revuelto trae el cabello, // con los pies llenos de abrojos // y el cuerpo lleno de vello; // en su mano una culebra, // y en la otra un puñal sangriento;
Así mismo, dando mayor extension que yo á la presencia ó ausencia del vello, y otras desigualdades accidentales de la superficie del fruto, y no queriendo apreciar en nada las notas de la corola, que suelen ser mas constantes que las sacadas de la superficie igual ó desigual, lampiña ó vellosa, dividió el grupo naturalísimo del género Bupleurum en Tenoria…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evllo
- velol
- vlelo
- vvello
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vello - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vello", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).