acebo
[aˈseβ̞o]
The verdict
“acebo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,626 among 120,137 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,626
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Ilex aquifolium) Arbusto de 3 a 10 metros de altura de copa tupida con ramas desde el suelo. Hojas alternas, lustrosas, persistentes, verde oscuro por el haz y claro en el envés. Las hojas basales...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acebo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈseβ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “acebo” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
acebo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,626 among 120,137 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈseβ̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Ilex aquifolium) Arbusto de 3 a 10 metros de altura de copa tupida con ramas desde el suelo. Hojas alternas, lustrosas, persistentes, verde oscuro por el haz y claro en el envés. Las hojas basales...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for acebo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is acebo, spelled A-C-E-B-O.
Definition
- 1(Ilex aquifolium) Arbusto de 3 a 10 metros de altura de copa tupida con ramas desde el suelo. Hojas alternas, lustrosas, persistentes, verde oscuro por el haz y claro en el envés. Las hojas basales suelen ser muy espinosas. Fruto en drupa de color rojo en su madurez, que madura en otoño-invierno.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “acebo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-C-E-B-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.