abrigo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,206
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
abrigo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Prenda de vestir que se pone encima de las demás y sirve para abrigar. Pronounced [aˈβ̞ɾiɣ̞o]. It ranks #8,206 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with abro and amigo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abrigo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈβ̞ɾiɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for abrigo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞ɾiɣ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,206 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for abrigo, with forms such as "abbrigo", "abirgo", and "abrgio". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "abro", "amigo", "abril", 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 abrigo, spelled A-B-R-I-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prenda de vestir que se pone encima de las demás y sirve para abrigar.
- 2Cualquier cosa que defiende, resguarda o protege, especialmente del frío, pero también de la intemperie o los peligros.
- 3Lugar para refugiarse contra las inclemencias del tiempo, como por ejemplo de las ventiscas.
- 4Acción o efecto de abrigar o de abrigarse.
- 5Lugar de la costa que sirve a las naves para resguardarse de los vientos, las olas y las corrientes.
- 6Pequeño saliente en la roca, menor que una cueva. Cueva natural donde se supone que hubo asentamientos prehistóricos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbrigo,abirgo,abrgio,abriggo,abriog,abrrigo,arbigo,avrigo,barigo
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Misspelling Variants of "abrigo"
Frequency rank: #8,206 in Spanish
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