abacá

/[aβ̞aˈka]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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abacá is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Musa textilis) Planta herbácea perenne perteneciente a la familia Musaceae, Orden Zingiberales. Puede alcanzar hasta seis metros de altura. Es originaria de Asia suroriental. De sus hojas se saca ... Pronounced [aβ̞aˈka].

Key facts for abacá
PropertyValue
Headwordabacá
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aβ̞aˈka]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

abacá is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for abacá is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aβ̞aˈka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for abacá in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

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 abacá, spelled A-B-A-C-Á, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Musa textilis) Planta herbácea perenne perteneciente a la familia Musaceae, Orden Zingiberales. Puede alcanzar hasta seis metros de altura. Es originaria de Asia suroriental. De sus hojas se saca un filamento de uso textil.
  2. 2
    Filamento obtenido del tronco de la planta del mismo nombre, usado en la industria textil para la confección de telas..
  3. 3
    Tejido obtenido a partir del filamento del mismo nombre.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abacá"?
"abacá" is spelled A-B-A-C-Á. The IPA pronunciation is [aβ̞aˈka].
What does "abacá" mean?
As a noun, "abacá" means: (Musa textilis) Planta herbácea perenne perteneciente a la familia Musaceae, Orden Zingiberales. Puede alcanzar hasta seis metros de altura. Es originaria de Asia suroriental. De sus hojas se saca ...
How do you pronounce "abacá"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abacá" is [aβ̞aˈka]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abacá" come from?
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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.