aceite de ballena
The verdict
“aceite de ballena” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Grasa líquida que se extrae de la ballena, así como también de otros cetáceos. Tiene aplicaciones en la industria.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aceite de ballena |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aˈsejt̪e ð̞e β̞aˈʝena] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aceite de ballena” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aceite de ballena is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈsejt̪e ð̞e β̞aˈʝena]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grasa líquida que se extrae de la ballena, así como también de otros cetáceos. Tiene aplicaciones en la industria.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aceite de ballena 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 aceite de ballena, spelled A-C-E-I-T-E- -D-E- -B-A-L-L-E-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grasa líquida que se extrae de la ballena, así como también de otros cetáceos. Tiene aplicaciones en la industria.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-C-E-I-T-E- -D-E- -B-A-L-L-E-N-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aˈsejt̪e ð̞e β̞aˈʝena] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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