asfalto
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,616
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
asfalto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fracción pesada del petróleo crudo, actualmente obtenida por destilación. En el pasado se usaron los depósitos naturales del mar Muerto y del lago Asfaltites, lo que le valió el nombre de betún jud... Pronounced [asˈfal̪t̪o]. Often confused with asalto and asalta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asfalto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [asˈfal̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for asfalto is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [asˈfal̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,616 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for asfalto, with forms such as "afsalto", "asaflto", and "asfallto". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "asalto", "asalta", "asaltos", 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 asfalto, spelled A-S-F-A-L-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fracción pesada del petróleo crudo, actualmente obtenida por destilación. En el pasado se usaron los depósitos naturales del mar Muerto y del lago Asfaltites, lo que le valió el nombre de betún judaico o betún de Judea.
- 2Nombre dado por extensión a la mezcla de asfalto con arena y otras substancia que se utiliza como material en la construcción y en la pavimentación de calles.
- 3Calzada revestida de asfalto.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afsalto,asaflto,asfallto,asfalot,asfaltto,asfatlo,asffalto,asflato,assfalto,safalto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for asfalto
Misspelling Variants of "asfalto"
Frequency rank: #13,616 in Spanish
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