villano
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,737
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
villano is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vecino que vive en una villa o aldea, a diferencia de un noble o hidalgo. Pronounced [biˈʝano]. Often confused with Villas and Villar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | villano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [biˈʝano] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for villano is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [biˈʝano]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,737 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for villano, with forms such as "billano", "ivllano", and "vilalno". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Villas", "Villar", "violan", 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 villano, spelled V-I-L-L-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vecino que vive en una villa o aldea, a diferencia de un noble o hidalgo.
- 2Rústico o descortés.
- 3Ruin, indigno.
- 4Baile español de los siglos XVI Y XVII.
- 5Música del baile anterior.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: billano,ivllano,vilalno,vilano,villanno,villaon,villnao,vlilano,vvillano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for villano
Misspelling Variants of "villano"
Frequency rank: #12,737 in Spanish
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