ajenjo

/[aˈxẽŋxo]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#66,645

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ajenjo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Artemisia absinthium) Planta herbácea medicinal de la familia de las asteráceas. Las hojas son de color blanquecino de ambos lados, las flores son de color amarillo de 3 a 5 milímetros de diámetro... Pronounced [aˈxẽŋxo].

Key facts for ajenjo
PropertyValue
Headwordajenjo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈxẽŋxo]
Letters6
Frequency rank#66,645
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ajenjo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ajenjo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈxẽŋxo]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,645 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ajenjo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 ajenjo, spelled A-J-E-N-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Artemisia absinthium) Planta herbácea medicinal de la familia de las asteráceas. Las hojas son de color blanquecino de ambos lados, las flores son de color amarillo de 3 a 5 milímetros de diámetro y salen en los meses de julio a septiembre.
  2. 2
    Bebida alcohólica aderezada con esta planta.

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Frequency rank: #66,645 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ajenjo"?
"ajenjo" is spelled A-J-E-N-J-O. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈxẽŋxo].
What does "ajenjo" mean?
As a noun, "ajenjo" means: (Artemisia absinthium) Planta herbácea medicinal de la familia de las asteráceas. Las hojas son de color blanquecino de ambos lados, las flores son de color amarillo de 3 a 5 milímetros de diámetro...
How do you pronounce "ajenjo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ajenjo" is [aˈxẽŋxo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.