abrojo
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
abrojo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Centaurea calcitrapa) Planta espinosa y sus frutos. Pronounced [aˈβ̞ɾoxo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abrojo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈβ̞ɾoxo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for abrojo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞ɾoxo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for abrojo 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 abrojo, spelled A-B-R-O-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Centaurea calcitrapa) Planta espinosa y sus frutos.
- 2(Tribulus terrestris) Planta.
- 3(Ononis spinosa) Planta.
- 4(Trifolium angustifolium) Planta.
- 5Velcro, sistema de cierre o sujeción formado por dos tiras de tejidos diferentes que se enganchan al entrar en contacto.
- 6Arma formada de cuatro púas, habitualmente metálicas, que se deja en el suelo para obstruir el avance de los caballos o tanques o para la caza mediante envenenamiento.
- 7Mueble heráldico con forma de abrojo₆.
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