achiote
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#75,077
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
achiote is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Bixa orellana) Especie botánica arborescente de las regiones intertropicales de América, cultivado específicamente en Colombia, México, Ecuador y Andes de Perú. Es un arbusto perenne, de 2-4 m has... Pronounced [aˈt͡ʃjot̪e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | achiote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈt͡ʃjot̪e] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for achiote is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈt͡ʃjot̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #75,077 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for achiote 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 achiote, spelled A-C-H-I-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Bixa orellana) Especie botánica arborescente de las regiones intertropicales de América, cultivado específicamente en Colombia, México, Ecuador y Andes de Perú. Es un arbusto perenne, de 2-4 m hasta 6 m de altura, copa baja y extendida; tallo pardo, ramifica a poca altura del terreno. Hojas simples, grandes, de 6-27 x 4-19 cm, y base redondeada o subtruncada, verdosas claras, persistentes, alternas, márgenes lisos, cordadas, de largos pecíolos, delgados, glabro de 3-8 cm de largo, engrosado en los extremos.
- 2Especia de color rojizo-amarillento de la semilla de este arbusto usada como colorante y para dar sabor a las comidas.
- 3Elemento químico con el número atómico 79. Es un metal pesado, dúctil, maleable, resistente a la corrosión, muy apreciado en joyería desde la remota Antigüedad.
Frequency rank: #75,077 in Spanish
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