aguacate
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,265
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
aguacate is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Persea americana) Árbol de la familia de las lauráceas, nativo de América tropical. Alcanza los 20 m de altura, con hojas ovadas, perennes, de hasta 25 cm de largo. Presenta flores inconspicuas, d... Pronounced [aɣ̞waˈkat̪e]. Often confused with aguante and aguacates.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aguacate |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɣ̞waˈkat̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aguacate is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɣ̞waˈkat̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,265 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for aguacate, with forms such as "agaucate", "agguacate", and "aguaacte". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "aguante", "aguacates", 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 aguacate, spelled A-G-U-A-C-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Persea americana) Árbol de la familia de las lauráceas, nativo de América tropical. Alcanza los 20 m de altura, con hojas ovadas, perennes, de hasta 25 cm de largo. Presenta flores inconspicuas, de color amarillo verdoso y unos 10 mm de diámetro, que fructifican dando lugar a una baya piriforme, cubierta por una cáscara verde, dura y áspera, que protege una pulpa verdeamarillenta, comestible, muy rica en lípidos, con una única semilla de hasta 5 cm de diámetro en su interior. Se cultiva por este fruto, del que puede dar hasta 120 unidades anualmente en buenas condiciones.
- 2Fruto de este árbol, usado en gastronomía.
- 3Agente u oficial de policía.
- 4Nombre dado al dólar estadounidense.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agaucate,agguacate,aguaacte,aguacaet,aguacatte,aguaccate,aguactae,agucaate,augacate,gauacate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aguacate
Misspelling Variants of "aguacate"
Frequency rank: #15,265 in Spanish
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