apio
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,034
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
apio is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Apium graveolens) Planta anual herbácea, de la familia de las apiáceas, que alcanza 1 m de altura, con tallos gruesos y carnosos, hojas pinnadas o bipinnadas con foliolos en forma de rombo, flores... Pronounced [ˈapjo]. Often confused with así and aro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapjo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for apio is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,034 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for apio, with forms such as "aipo", "apoi", and "appio". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "así", "aro", "ari", 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 apio, spelled A-P-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Apium graveolens) Planta anual herbácea, de la familia de las apiáceas, que alcanza 1 m de altura, con tallos gruesos y carnosos, hojas pinnadas o bipinnadas con foliolos en forma de rombo, flores en umbela, de color blanco o amarillento y muy pequeñas, y frutos ovoides de hasta 2 mm de diámetro. Se cultiva desde la Antigüedad por sus pencas comestibles y sus raíces, así como por el aceite esencial que se obtiene de sus frutos
- 2Hombre afeminado
- 3Dícese de la arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza), planta apiácea de raíz feculenta comestible.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aipo,apoi,appio,paio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for apio
Misspelling Variants of "apio"
Frequency rank: #29,034 in Spanish
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