asesino
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,610
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
asesino is anSpanishadj. It means: Que asesina o ha asesinado, en especial si lo tiene por hábito, inclinación u oficio. Pronounced [aseˈsino]. It ranks #3,610 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Avelino and asesinos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asesino |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [aseˈsino] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for asesino is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aseˈsino]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,610 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for asesino, with forms such as "acecino", "aessino", and "aseisno". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Avelino", "asesinos", "asedio", 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 asesino, spelled A-S-E-S-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que asesina o ha asesinado, en especial si lo tiene por hábito, inclinación u oficio.
- 2Por extensión, que causa o manifiesta la intención de causar daño.
- 3Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a una secta religiosa ismaelita de los musulmanes shiítas, activa entre los siglos VIII y XIII en el mundo árabe y enfrentada a la dinastía selyúcida.
- 4El que engaña a quien se fía de él.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acecino,aessino,aseisno,asesinno,asesion,asesnio,asessino,asseino,assesino,saesino
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "asesino"
Frequency rank: #3,610 in Spanish
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