ácido
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,212
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ácido is anSpanishadj. It means: Que tiene uno de los sabores básicos, como el del limón o el vinagre, producido por la concentración de iones hidronios. Pronounced [ˈasið̞o]. It ranks #4,212 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with aid and acto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ácido |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈasið̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ácido is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈasið̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,212 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ácido, with forms such as "cáido", "áccido", and "ácdio". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aid", "acto", "Ando", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ácido, spelled Á-C-I-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que tiene uno de los sabores básicos, como el del limón o el vinagre, producido por la concentración de iones hidronios.
- 2Propio de o relativo a los ácidos₇.
- 3Que tiene un pH inferior a 7, es decir, que disuelto en agua tiene una concentración de protones superior a 10⁻⁷ moles por litro.
- 4Dicho sobre todo de una persona o de su trato, que resulta irritante por su astringencia, su rigidez o su violencia.
- 5Dicho sobre todo de una persona o de su trato, que se expresa con acritud e ingenio.
- 6Que sabe mucho sobre un asunto o tema.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cáido,áccido,ácdio,áciddo,áciod,áicdo,ásido
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ácido
Misspelling Variants of "ácido"
Frequency rank: #4,212 in Spanish
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