abraxas
[aˈβ̞ɾaksas]
The verdict
“abraxas” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Palabra con significado desconocido que se ha encontrado grabada en piedras del antiguo mundo Greco-Romano. Las sectas gnósticas han empleado estas piedras como talismán.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abraxas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈβ̞ɾaksas] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abraxas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for abraxas is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞ɾaksas]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for abraxas 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 abraxas, spelled A-B-R-A-X-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Palabra con significado desconocido que se ha encontrado grabada en piedras del antiguo mundo Greco-Romano. Las sectas gnósticas han empleado estas piedras como talismán.
- 2Piedra grabada con esta palabra.
- 3Vocablo cuyas letras suman (por su valor numérico) los 365 días del año.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-B-R-A-X-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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