acimut

/[asiˈmut̪]/ noun

The verdict

“acimut” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
6
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ángulo entre un vector de referencia y un segundo vector sobre el mismo plano.

Key facts for acimut
PropertyValue
Headwordacimut
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[asiˈmut̪]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “acimut” sits in Spanish frequency

acimut falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for acimut is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [asiˈmut̪]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for acimut 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 acimut, spelled A-C-I-M-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ángulo entre un vector de referencia y un segundo vector sobre el mismo plano.
  2. 2
    Específicamente, ángulo horizontal entre la dirección del norte geográfico y el rumbo deseado, en sentido horario de 0° a 360°.
  3. 3
    Ángulo o longitud de arco medido sobre el horizonte celeste que forman el punto cardinal sur (Norte) y la proyección vertical del astro sobre el horizonte del observador situado en alguna latitud Norte (Sur). Se mide en grados desde el punto cardinal en sentido de las agujas del reloj: Norte-Este-Sur-Oeste.

Synonyms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acimut"?
"acimut" is spelled A-C-I-M-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is [asiˈmut̪].
What does "acimut" mean?
As a noun, "acimut" means: Ángulo entre un vector de referencia y un segundo vector sobre el mismo plano.
How do you pronounce "acimut"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acimut" is [asiˈmut̪]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acimut" come from?
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Using “acimut”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is A-C-I-M-U-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [asiˈmut̪] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.