vuelo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,061
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vuelo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción de ir por el aire moviéndose o sosteniéndose con alas u otra superficie análoga. Pronounced [ˈbwelo]. It ranks #2,061 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with vuelta and vuelve.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vuelo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbwelo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vuelo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbwelo]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,061 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 vuelo, with forms such as "buelo", "uvelo", and "veulo". 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, "vuelta", "vuelve", "vuelto", 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 vuelo, spelled V-U-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción de ir por el aire moviéndose o sosteniéndose con alas u otra superficie análoga.
- 2Trayecto que se recorre volando o aleteando por el aire.
- 3Viaje de un avión hasta su punto de destino.
- 4Cada una de las salidas numeradas de los aviones comerciales.
- 5Parte ornamental de la tela de un vestido que sobresale y cae.
- 6Extensión de la tela en la ropa o en las cortinas.
- 7Plumas que un ave usa para volar.
- 8Zona cubierta con árboles en un monte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: buelo,uvelo,veulo,vuello,vueol,vuleo,vvuelo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vuelo
Misspelling Variants of "vuelo"
Frequency rank: #2,061 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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