aguijar
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
aguijar is aSpanishverb. It means: Picar con la aguijada u otra cosa a los bueyes, mulas, caballos, etc., para que anden aprisa. Pronounced [aɣ̞iˈxaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aguijar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aɣ̞iˈxaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aguijar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɣ̞iˈxaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for aguijar 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 aguijar, spelled A-G-U-I-J-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Picar con la aguijada u otra cosa a los bueyes, mulas, caballos, etc., para que anden aprisa.
- 2Avivar a los bueyes, mulas, caballos, etc., con la voz o de otro modo.
- 3Estimular a alguien a hacer algo.
- 4Incitar a un perro para que ladre o ataque.
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