vellón
The verdict
“vellón” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #60,440 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #60,440
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Total de la lana cortada de un carnero u oveja en una esquila.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vellón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [beˈʝõn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vellón” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vellón is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [beˈʝõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,440 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for vellón in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 vellón, spelled V-E-L-L-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Total de la lana cortada de un carnero u oveja en una esquila.
- 2Piel de carnero u oveja curtida con la lana original.
- 3Mechón de lana.
- 4Guata (lámina de algodón que se usa para rellenar).
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #60,440 in Spanish
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Using “vellón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-E-L-L-Ó-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [beˈʝõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter V in our Spanish index: