achaque

/[aˈt͡ʃake]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

achaque is aSpanishnoun. It means: Indisposición o dolencia cotidiana, especialmente las que son comunes en la vejez. Pronounced [aˈt͡ʃake].

Key facts for achaque
PropertyValue
Headwordachaque
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈt͡ʃake]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

achaque is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for achaque is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈt͡ʃake]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for achaque in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 achaque, spelled A-C-H-A-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Indisposición o dolencia cotidiana, especialmente las que son comunes en la vejez.
  2. 2
    Malestar o indisposición de poca importancia o duración.
  3. 3
    Rasgo físico o moral que se considera negativo o reprobable.
  4. 4
    Razón que se dice a alguien para justificar una acción u omisión.
  5. 5
    Tema del que se trata o sobre el que se piensa.
  6. 6
    Antigua penalidad en dinero que se imponía en ciertas circunstancias.
  7. 7
    Factor o suceso que constituye la razón, explicación o antecedente de un resultado.
  8. 8
    Fama, reputación, apariencia o conjunto de percepciones que tiene la gente sobre alguien.
  9. 9
    Denuncia que alguien pone solamente para obtener dinero del acusado a cambio de no proseguir con el pleito.
  10. 10
    Sangrado mensual como consecuencia del ciclo menstrual en la mujer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "achaque"?
"achaque" is spelled A-C-H-A-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈt͡ʃake].
What does "achaque" mean?
As a noun, "achaque" means: Indisposición o dolencia cotidiana, especialmente las que son comunes en la vejez.
How do you pronounce "achaque"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "achaque" is [aˈt͡ʃake]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "achaque" come from?
"achaque" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.