agua
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#253
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
agua is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sustancia transparente, inodora e insípida, que se encuentra en estado líquido a temperatura y presión estándar, y cuya composición molecular es de dos átomos de hidrógeno por uno de oxígeno. Pronounced [ˈaɣ̞wa]. It ranks #253 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with au and aún.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɣ̞wa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for agua is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɣ̞wa]. Corpus data places it at rank #253 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for agua, with forms such as "agau", "aggua", and "auga". 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, "au", "aún", "Ana", 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 agua, spelled A-G-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustancia transparente, inodora e insípida, que se encuentra en estado líquido a temperatura y presión estándar, y cuya composición molecular es de dos átomos de hidrógeno por uno de oxígeno.
- 2Licor concentrado obtenido por infusión de vegetales para su uso como aderezo o medicamento.
- 3Por extensión, infusión cualquiera de hierbas consumida como bebida.
- 4Plano inclinado en el que se construye un tejado para que corra el agua₁ de lluvia.
- 5Acción y efecto de llover.
- 6Acción y efecto de llorar.
- 7Brecha en el casco de una embarcación por la que entra agua₁.
- 8Alteración en el nivel de un cuerpo de agua₁ producida por la atracción de la luna y, en menor medida, del sol.
- 9Corriente de agua₁ que discurre por tierra desde un manantial, lago o masa helada, hasta desembocar en una mayor.
- 10Elemento que incluye los signos de Cáncer, Escorpio y Piscis.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agau,aggua,auga,gaua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for agua
Misspelling Variants of "agua"
Frequency rank: #253 in Spanish
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