aikido
[ajˈkið̞o]
The verdict
“aikido” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #63,548 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #63,548
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arte marcial japonés, desarrollado por Morihei Ueshiba entre los años 1930 y 1960.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aikido |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ajˈkið̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aikido” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aikido is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ajˈkið̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,548 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arte marcial japonés, desarrollado por Morihei Ueshiba entre los años 1930 y 1960.".
aikido doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is aikido, spelled A-I-K-I-D-O.
Definition
- 1Arte marcial japonés, desarrollado por Morihei Ueshiba entre los años 1930 y 1960.
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 “aikido”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-I-K-I-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ajˈkið̞o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.