vuelven

/[ˈbwelβ̞ẽn]/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,455

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

vuelven is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de volver o de volverse. Pronounced [ˈbwelβ̞ẽn]. It ranks #3,455 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with vuelvo and vuelves.

Key facts for vuelven
PropertyValue
Headwordvuelven
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈbwelβ̞ẽn]
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,455
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for vuelven is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbwelβ̞ẽn]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,455 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de volver o de volverse.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for vuelven, with forms such as "buelben", "uvelven", and "veulven". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "vuelvo", "vuelves", "vuele", 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 vuelven, spelled V-U-E-L-V-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de volver o de volverse.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: buelben,uvelven,veulven,vuelevn,vuellven,vuelvenn,vuelvne,vuelvven,vuevlen,vuleven,vvuelven

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vuelven

Misspelling Variants of "vuelven"

buelben7uvelven7veulven7vuelevn7vuellven8vuelvenn8vuelvne7vuelvven8
Misspelling Variants of "vuelven"

Frequency rank: #3,455 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vuelven"?
"vuelven" is spelled V-U-E-L-V-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbwelβ̞ẽn].
What does "vuelven" mean?
As a verb, "vuelven" means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de volver o de volverse.
What words are commonly confused with "vuelven"?
"vuelven" is commonly confused with "vuelvo", "vuelves", "vuele". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vuelven"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vuelven" is [ˈbwelβ̞ẽn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vuelven" come from?
"vuelven" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.