aguacate
[aɣ̞waˈkat̪e]
The verdict
“aguacate” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #15,265 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,265
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (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...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “aguacate” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aguacate is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for aguacate, with forms such as "agaucate", "agguacate", and "aguaacte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "aguante", "aguacates", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is aguacate, spelled A-G-U-A-C-A-T-E.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agaucate,agguacate,aguaacte,aguacaet,aguacatte,aguaccate,aguactae,agucaate,augacate,gauacate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aguacate - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “aguacate”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-G-U-A-C-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aɣ̞waˈkat̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “aguante” - see the side-by-side comparison. aguacate vs aguante
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.