abrir camino
[aˈβ̞ɾiɾ kaˈmino]
The verdict
“abrir camino” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Facilitar el tránsito de una parte a otra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abrir camino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aˈβ̞ɾiɾ kaˈmino] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abrir camino” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for abrir camino is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞ɾiɾ kaˈmino]. 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 abrir camino 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 abrir camino, spelled A-B-R-I-R- -C-A-M-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Facilitar el tránsito de una parte a otra.
- 2Encontrar el medio de salir de una dificultad.
- 3Ser el primero en alguna cosa.
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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Using “abrir camino”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-B-R-I-R- -C-A-M-I-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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