voleo
[boˈleo]
The verdict
“voleo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,362 among 1,793 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,362
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Golpe dado en el aire a una cosa antes que caiga al suelo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-voleo · voleo · Spanish
voleo · rank #86,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,362
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH volteas
Nearest frequency peer: volteas (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “voleo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- vocabularios
vocabularios
13,643 corpus weight
- vocería
vocería
13,641 corpus weight
- voleo
voleo
13,639 corpus weight
- volteas
volteas
13,638 corpus weight
- voltio
voltio
13,637 corpus weight
- votarías
votarías
13,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “voleo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voleo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [boˈleo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “voleo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
voleo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,362 among 1,793 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [boˈleo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for voleo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is voleo, spelled V-O-L-E-O.
Definition
- 1Golpe dado en el aire a una cosa antes que caiga al suelo.
- 2Movimiento de la danza española, que consiste en levantar un pie de frente y lo más alto que se puede.
- 3Bofetón dado como para hacer rodar por el suelo a quien lo recibe.
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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