asilo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,980
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
asilo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquier lugar que sirve de refugio para los perseguidos. Pronounced [aˈsilo]. It ranks #6,980 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with aso and Asís.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asilo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈsilo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for asilo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈsilo]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,980 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for asilo, with forms such as "acilo", "aislo", and "asillo". 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, "aso", "Asís", "asno", 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 asilo, spelled A-S-I-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquier lugar que sirve de refugio para los perseguidos.
- 2Establecimiento caritativo donde se alberga a los pobres o menesterosos.
- 3Amparo, protección, favor.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acilo,aislo,asillo,asiol,assilo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for asilo
Misspelling Variants of "asilo"
Frequency rank: #6,980 in Spanish
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