abanico
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,257
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
abanico is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento, a modo de una lámina de material ligero, usada para mover el aire. Pronounced [aβ̞aˈniko]. Often confused with abatido and abanicos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abanico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aβ̞aˈniko] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for abanico is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aβ̞aˈniko]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,257 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for abanico, with forms such as "aabnico", "abainco", and "abancio". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "abatido", "abanicos", 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 abanico, spelled A-B-A-N-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento, a modo de una lámina de material ligero, usada para mover el aire.
- 2Por extensión, cualquier cosa con la forma típica de los abanicos₁, un semicírculo formado por piezas articuladas en su base.
- 3Por extensión, cualquier conjunto de posibilidades u opciones alternativas.
- 4Cabría para suspender grandes pesos, que ordinariamente se forma a bordo con un palo inclinado hacia fuera y sujeto por el pie a otro vertical.
- 5Instrumento en forma de abanico₂, usado en los ferrocarriles para advertir de una bifurcación en las vías.
- 6Pequeña estera usada para avivar el fuego.
- 7Pieza articulada, a modo de abanico₂, que cubría los codos y rodillas en las armaduras de placa.
- 8Espada curva de un solo filo.
- 9Ventilador axial eléctrico.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aabnico,abainco,abancio,abanicco,abanioc,abannico,abbanico,abnaico,avanico,baanico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abanico
Misspelling Variants of "abanico"
Frequency rank: #15,257 in Spanish
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