ábaco
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,611
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ábaco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuadro de madera con diez cuerdas o alambres paralelos y en cada uno de ellos otras tantas bolas movibles, usado en las escuelas para enseñar los rudimentos de la aritmética. Pronounced [ˈaβ̞ako].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ábaco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaβ̞ako] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ábaco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaβ̞ako]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,611 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ábaco 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 ábaco, spelled Á-B-A-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuadro de madera con diez cuerdas o alambres paralelos y en cada uno de ellos otras tantas bolas movibles, usado en las escuelas para enseñar los rudimentos de la aritmética.
- 2Por extensión del anterior, cualquier tabla o cuadro utilizado para el cómputo.
- 3Representación gráfica de una serie de funciones matemáticas que permite determinar el valor de una variable sin necesidad de cálculos.
- 4Tablero o plancha utilizada como elemento decorativo, principalmente en muebles.
- 5Parte superior en forma de tablero que corona el capitel.
- 6Artesa utilizada para lavar minerales, principalmente oro.
- 7Tablero empleado para el juego de ajedrez.
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Frequency rank: #66,611 in Spanish
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