ajo
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,571
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ajo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Allium sativum) Planta herbácea perenne de la familia de las aliáceas, cultivada por su bulbo comestible, muy apreciado en gastronomía. Posee hojas planas y delgadas, de hasta 30 cm de longitud, y... Pronounced [ˈaxo]. It ranks #9,571 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with al and ay.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ajo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaxo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ajo is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaxo]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,571 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ajo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "al", "ay", "as", and more, 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 ajo, spelled A-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Allium sativum) Planta herbácea perenne de la familia de las aliáceas, cultivada por su bulbo comestible, muy apreciado en gastronomía. Posee hojas planas y delgadas, de hasta 30 cm de longitud, y flores pequeñas y blancas. El bulbo, de forma oblonga y recubierto de una fina piel blanca, está dividido en gajos comúnmente llamados dientes. Posee un intenso olor debido a la aliina.
- 2Bulbo de esta planta, o gajo del mismo, utilizado como condimento.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #9,571 in Spanish
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