ablución menor
The verdict
“ablución menor” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Wudu o ablución menor, entre los musulmanes es la obligación de lavarse los pies, las manos y la cabeza, como mínimo para purificarse, antes de tocar el Corán o antes de entrar a la oración (صلاة [...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ablución menor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aβ̞luˈsjõm meˈnoɾ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ablución menor” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ablución menor is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aβ̞luˈsjõm meˈnoɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Wudu o ablución menor, entre los musulmanes es la obligación de lavarse los pies, las manos y la cabeza, como mínimo para purificarse, antes de tocar el Corán o antes de entrar a la oración (صلاة [...".
No misspelling variants are generated for ablución menor in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 ablución menor, spelled A-B-L-U-C-I-Ó-N- -M-E-N-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Wudu o ablución menor, entre los musulmanes es la obligación de lavarse los pies, las manos y la cabeza, como mínimo para purificarse, antes de tocar el Corán o antes de entrar a la oración (صلاة [ṣalāt]), en la mezquita. Por eso todas las mezquitas suelen contar con una o varias fuentes de abluciones en el patio de entrada.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-B-L-U-C-I-Ó-N- -M-E-N-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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