abreviatura
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,894
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
abreviatura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Representación acortada de un vocablo o frase que, por economía de espacio o comodidad, suprime algunas letras al final o en el centro. Pronounced [aβ̞ɾeβ̞jaˈt̪uɾa]. Often confused with abreviaturas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abreviatura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aβ̞ɾeβ̞jaˈt̪uɾa] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #36,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for abreviatura is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aβ̞ɾeβ̞jaˈt̪uɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,894 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for abreviatura, with forms such as "abbreviatura", "aberviatura", and "abrebiatura". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "abreviaturas", 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 abreviatura, spelled A-B-R-E-V-I-A-T-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Representación acortada de un vocablo o frase que, por economía de espacio o comodidad, suprime algunas letras al final o en el centro.
- 2Palabra o frase representada gráficamente o por escrito como una abreviatura₁.
- 3Oficio u ocupación del abreviador (oficial que hace extractos de documentos en ciertas misiones diplomáticas).
- 4Explicación o exposición breve del contenido básico de un tema antes presentado o de un texto, documento, libro, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbreviatura,aberviatura,abrebiatura,abreivatura,abrevaitura,abreviatrua,abreviattura,abreviatuar,abreviaturra,abreviautra,abrevitaura,abrevviatura,abrreviatura,abrveiatura,arbeviatura,avreviatura,bareviatura
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "abreviatura"
Frequency rank: #36,894 in Spanish
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