agua bendita

/[ˈaɣ̞wa β̞ẽn̪ˈd̪it̪a]/ phrase

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
12
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Agua bendecida por un sacerdote.

Key facts for agua bendita
PropertyValue
Headwordagua bendita
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈaɣ̞wa β̞ẽn̪ˈd̪it̪a]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “agua bendita” sits in Spanish frequency

agua bendita 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 agua bendita is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɣ̞wa β̞ẽn̪ˈd̪it̪a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Agua bendecida por un sacerdote.".

No misspelling variants are generated for agua bendita 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 agua bendita, spelled A-G-U-A- -B-E-N-D-I-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Agua bendecida por un sacerdote.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agua bendita"?
"agua bendita" is spelled A-G-U-A- -B-E-N-D-I-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈaɣ̞wa β̞ẽn̪ˈd̪it̪a].
What does "agua bendita" mean?
As a phrase, "agua bendita" means: Agua bendecida por un sacerdote.
How do you pronounce "agua bendita"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agua bendita" is [ˈaɣ̞wa β̞ẽn̪ˈd̪it̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agua bendita" come from?
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Using “agua bendita”

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

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