video

/[biˈð̞eo]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#425

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

video is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tecnología de la captación, grabación, procesamiento, almacenamiento, transmisión y reconstrucción por medios electrónicos digitales o analógicos de una secuencia de imágenes que representan escena... Pronounced [biˈð̞eo]. It ranks #425 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with vio and vie.

Key facts for video
PropertyValue
Headwordvideo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[biˈð̞eo]
Letters5
Frequency rank#425
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of video in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for video is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [biˈð̞eo]. Corpus data places it at rank #425 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for video, with forms such as "bideo", "ivdeo", and "vdieo". 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, "vio", "vie", "vivo", 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 video, spelled V-I-D-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tecnología de la captación, grabación, procesamiento, almacenamiento, transmisión y reconstrucción por medios electrónicos digitales o analógicos de una secuencia de imágenes que representan escenas en movimiento.
  2. 2
    Video₁ grabado en algún medio.
  3. 3
    Dispositivo capaz de reproducir o grabar señales de la televisión, DVD, TDT, otro vídeo u otro dispositivo, utiliza una videocinta extraíble que contiene una cinta magnética para grabar audio y video.
  4. 4
    Parte de la señal de televisión que corresponde a la imagen.
  5. 5
    Variante de videoclub.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bideo,ivdeo,vdieo,viddeo,vidoe,viedo,vvideo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for video

Misspelling Variants of "video"

bideo5ivdeo5vdieo5viddeo6vidoe5viedo5vvideo6
Misspelling Variants of "video"

Frequency rank: #425 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "video"?
"video" is spelled V-I-D-E-O. The IPA pronunciation is [biˈð̞eo].
What does "video" mean?
As a noun, "video" means: Tecnología de la captación, grabación, procesamiento, almacenamiento, transmisión y reconstrucción por medios electrónicos digitales o analógicos de una secuencia de imágenes que representan escena...
What words are commonly confused with "video"?
"video" is commonly confused with "vio", "vie", "vivo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "video"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "video" is [biˈð̞eo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "video" come from?
"video" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter V in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.