aficionado
/əˌfɪʃ.(j)əˈnɑː.dəʊ/noun
aficionado is spelled A-F-I-C-I-O-N-A-D-O. The wrong spelling people search most is affectionado: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 51 of all searches for the word. Aficionado is a noun meaning “A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting)…”. The plural of aficionado is aficionados or aficionadoes; Wiktionary also lists aficionadi (hypercorrect).
How many letters and syllables are in aficionado?
| Letters | 10: A-F-I-C-I-O-N-A-D-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 48,775th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, affectionado, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell aficionado?
Aficionado is spelled A-F-I-C-I-O-N-A-D-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 51 of the searches for aficionado in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is aficionado?
Aficionado appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce aficionado?
- UK /əˌfɪʃ.(j)əˈnɑː.dəʊ/
- UK /əˌfɪʃ.i.əˈnɑː.dəʊ/
- UK /əˌfɪs.jəˈnɑː.dəʊ/
Aficionado has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-aficionado.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with aficionado?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as aficionado from its last stressed vowel (/ɑdəʊ/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of aficionado
- aficionados plural
- aficionadoes plural
- aficionadi hypercorrect, plural, rare
- afficionado
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does aficionado mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteAn amateur bullfighter.
- 2
A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting); a fan or devotee.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Aficionado in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activi:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | aficionado |
| Spanish | aficionado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does aficionado come from?
Borrowed from Spanish aficionado (“fan, amateur”), past participle of aficionar (“to inspire fondness in someone, to get someone interested in something”). Doublet of affectionate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).