velo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,383
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
velo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tela, generalmente delgada, para cubrir algo que no se desea que quede a la vista. Pronounced [ˈbelo]. It ranks #9,383 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with vez and ver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | velo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbelo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for velo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbelo]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,383 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for velo, with forms such as "evlo", "veol", and "vleo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vez", "ver", "veo", 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 velo, spelled V-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tela, generalmente delgada, para cubrir algo que no se desea que quede a la vista.
- 2Prenda del traje femenino de calle, hecha de tul, gasa u otra tela delgada de seda o algodón, y con la cual suelen cubrirse las mujeres la cabeza, el cuello, a veces el rostro y otras veces el cuerpo completo.
- 3Trozo de tul, gasa, etc., con que se guarnecen y adornan algunas mantillas por la parte superior.
- 4El de uno u otro color que, sujeto por delante al sombrero, cubriendo el rostro, suelen llevar las señoras.
- 5Manto bendito con que cubren la cabeza y la parte superior del cuerpo las religiosas, por lo común blanco para las legas y novicias y negro para las demás.
- 6Velo humeral.
- 7Banda de tela blanca, que en la misa de velaciones se pone al marido por los hombros y a la mujer sobre la cabeza, en señal de la unión que han contraído.
- 8Cualquier cosa delgada, ligera o flotante, que encubre más o menos la vísta de otra.
- 9Pretexto, disimulación o excusa con que se intenta ocultar, atenuar u oscurecer la verdad.
- 10Confusión u oscuridad del entendimiento en lo que discurre, que le estorba percibirlo enteramente u ocasiona duda.
- 11Cualquier cosa que encubre o disimula el conocimiento expreso de otra.
- 12Fiesta que se hace para dar la profesión a una monja.
- 13Mediomundo (red para pescar).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evlo,veol,vleo,vvelo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for velo
Misspelling Variants of "velo"
Frequency rank: #9,383 in Spanish
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