abad
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,925
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
abad is aSpanishnoun. It means: Persona que ostenta el cargo de superior en abadías, colegiatas o monasterios, de congregaciones religiosas masculinas. Pronounced [aˈβ̞að̞]. It ranks #9,925 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ad and and.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈβ̞að̞] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for abad is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞að̞]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,925 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for abad, with forms such as "aabd", "abadd", and "abbad". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ad", "and", "Ana", 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 abad, spelled A-B-A-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona que ostenta el cargo de superior en abadías, colegiatas o monasterios, de congregaciones religiosas masculinas.
- 2Cura, párroco de una iglesia.
- 3En los antiguos cabildos de algunas catedrales, hace referencia al título de una dignidad (canónigo o superior).
- 4Título honorífico de aquella persona lega que por derechos de sucesión hereda una abadía con frutos secularizados.
- 5Cura o beneficiado elegido por sus compañeros para que los presida en cabildo durante cierto tiempo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aabd,abadd,abbad,abda,avad,baad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abad
Misspelling Variants of "abad"
Frequency rank: #9,925 in Spanish
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