What is the difference between “vello” and “pelo”?
Señal silenciosa en los pies que alerta diabetes
B1 Spanish listening practice · Mexican Spanish · Picked for people who know some
Spanish splits “hair” three ways. “Cabello” is the hair on your head; “pelo” is the catch-all (head hair, body hair, animal fur, a single strand); and “vello” is specifically the fine, downy body hair — on arms, legs, toes. So “la pérdida de vello en los dedos de los pies” is losing the fuzz on your toes — which this clip flags as a possible circulation or diabetes warning sign.
Watch the spelling and sound: “vello” (body fuzz) versus “bello” (beautiful) are homophones in most accents — context disambiguates. Health vocabulary worth banking from the clip: “circulación sanguínea” (blood circulation), “hormigueo” (tingling), “entumecimiento” (numbness), “heridas que tardan en sanar” (wounds slow to heal).
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-ESP 2011 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.