Atlas
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,587
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Atlas is aSpanishname. It means: Rey fabuloso de Mauritania. Habiendo negado la hospitalidad a Perseo, este hizo aparecer a sus ojos la cabeza de Medusa y lo metamorfoseó en montaña. Como dicha montaña real es muy alta, de ahí el ... Pronounced [ˈat̪las]. It ranks #9,587 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with aula and atrás.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Atlas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [ˈat̪las] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Atlas is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈat̪las]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,587 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Atlas, with forms such as "atals", "atlass", and "atllas". 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, "aula", "atrás", "atrae", 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 Atlas, spelled A-T-L-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rey fabuloso de Mauritania. Habiendo negado la hospitalidad a Perseo, este hizo aparecer a sus ojos la cabeza de Medusa y lo metamorfoseó en montaña. Como dicha montaña real es muy alta, de ahí el mito de Atlas sosteniendo el cielo sobre sus hombros. Simboliza al hombre que lleva sobre sí el peso de numerosos negocios.
- 2Cadena de montañas al norte de África, En Marruecos, Algeria y Túnez.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atals,atlass,atllas,atlsa,attlas,talas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Atlas
Misspelling Variants of "Atlas"
Frequency rank: #9,587 in Spanish
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