asalto
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,856
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
asalto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Delito caracterizado por violencia contra las personas, generalmente con fines de apoderamiento ilegítimo. Pronounced [aˈsal̪t̪o]. It ranks #4,856 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with asilo and asunto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asalto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈsal̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for asalto is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈsal̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,856 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for asalto, with forms such as "aaslto", "asallto", and "asalot". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "asilo", "asunto", "astuto", 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 asalto, spelled A-S-A-L-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Delito caracterizado por violencia contra las personas, generalmente con fines de apoderamiento ilegítimo.
- 2Atraco.
- 3Ataque sorpresivo a una plaza fuerte para tomarla.
- 4Acoso repentino.
- 5Cada uno de los tiempos que componen un combate de boxeo.
- 6Combate deportivo con arma blanca.
- 7Ataque con el pie y la espada hacia adelante.
- 8Fiesta que algunos amigos obligan a hacer a otro presentándose, sorpresivamente o no, en su casa con los comestibles y las bebidas del caso.
- 9Variedad del juego de tablero tres en raya.
- 10En Cuba, baile que se da por sorpresa.^([cita requerida]).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aaslto,asallto,asalot,asaltto,asatlo,aslato,assalto,saalto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "asalto"
Frequency rank: #4,856 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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