ao

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ao is 2 letters long, classified as acontraction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɔ]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,556 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Contracción de la preposición a ("a") y el artículo o ("el"): (al).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ao 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, "ay", "as", "at", 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 ao, spelled A-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.