anaquel
[anaˈkel]
The verdict
“anaquel” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #97,012 among 120,137 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,012
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tabla puesta horizontalmente en los muros, armarios para la colocación de cosas. La mayoría de ellos se encuentran en bibliotecas, también se le puede llamar anaquel a los armarios existentes dentr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anaquel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [anaˈkel] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “anaquel” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
anaquel is uncommon Spanish at frequency #97,012 among 120,137 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [anaˈkel]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tabla puesta horizontalmente en los muros, armarios para la colocación de cosas. La mayoría de ellos se encuentran en bibliotecas, también se le puede llamar anaquel a los armarios existentes dentr...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for anaquel in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is anaquel, spelled A-N-A-Q-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Tabla puesta horizontalmente en los muros, armarios para la colocación de cosas. La mayoría de ellos se encuentran en bibliotecas, también se le puede llamar anaquel a los armarios existentes dentro de una empresa, local, casa etc.
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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 “anaquel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-N-A-Q-U-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [anaˈkel] (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.