atrox
Letters
5 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
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atrox is anSpanishadj. It means: De aspecto terrible, horroroso, espantoso. Pronounced /ˈa.troːks/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atrox |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ˈa.troːks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for atrox is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈa.troːks/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for atrox in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 atrox, spelled A-T-R-O-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De aspecto terrible, horroroso, espantoso.
- 2De aspecto terrible, horroroso, espantoso.
- 3De aspecto terrible, horroroso, espantoso.
- 4Dicho de situaciones, noticias, etc.: terrible, espantoso, alarmante.
- 5Dicho de la guerra: atroz, feroz, encarnizado, sangriento, cruento.
- 6Atroz, cruel, feroz, fiero, salvaje.
- 7Atroz, cruel, feroz, fiero, salvaje.
- 8Atroz, cruel, feroz, fiero, salvaje.
- 9Dicho de animales salvajes: salvaje, feroz, peligroso.
- 10Dicho de la conducta, de acciones, etc.: atroz, fiero, cruel, inhumano.
- 11Dicho de la conducta, de acciones, etc.: atroz, fiero, cruel, inhumano.
- 12Implacable, inquebrantable, inflexible, duro.
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