agua regia
[ˈaɣ̞wa ˈrexja]
The verdict
“agua regia” 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
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Solución de ácido nítrico y ácido clorhídrico concentrados, que tiene un gran poder de corrosión, pudiendo incluso disolver metales preciosos como el oro o el platino.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agua regia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈaɣ̞wa ˈrexja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “agua regia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for agua regia is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɣ̞wa ˈrexja]. 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: "Solución de ácido nítrico y ácido clorhídrico concentrados, que tiene un gran poder de corrosión, pudiendo incluso disolver metales preciosos como el oro o el platino.".
No misspelling variants are generated for agua regia 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 regia, spelled A-G-U-A- -R-E-G-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Solución de ácido nítrico y ácido clorhídrico concentrados, que tiene un gran poder de corrosión, pudiendo incluso disolver metales preciosos como el oro o el platino.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-G-U-A- -R-E-G-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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