ave

/[ˈaβ̞e]/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,694

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

ave is aSpanishnoun. It means: Animal vertebrado, ovíparo, de respiración pulmonar y sangre de temperatura constante, pico córneo, cuerpo cubierto de plumas, con dos patas y dos alas aptas por lo común para el vuelo. En el estad... Pronounced [ˈaβ̞e]. It ranks #5,694 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ay and az.

Key facts for ave
PropertyValue
Headwordave
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈaβ̞e]
Letters3
Frequency rank#5,694
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ave in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ave is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaβ̞e]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,694 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.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ave in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "az", "aya", 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 ave, spelled A-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Animal vertebrado, ovíparo, de respiración pulmonar y sangre de temperatura constante, pico córneo, cuerpo cubierto de plumas, con dos patas y dos alas aptas por lo común para el vuelo. En el estado embrionario tiene amnios y alantoides
  2. 2
    Dícese de la carne de estos animales empleada como alimento, especialmente la de pollo, gallina, pato, pavo o perdiz.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #5,694 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ave"?
"ave" is spelled A-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈaβ̞e].
What does "ave" mean?
As a noun, "ave" means: Animal vertebrado, ovíparo, de respiración pulmonar y sangre de temperatura constante, pico córneo, cuerpo cubierto de plumas, con dos patas y dos alas aptas por lo común para el vuelo. En el estad...
What words are commonly confused with "ave"?
"ave" is commonly confused with "ay", "az", "aya". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ave"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ave" is [ˈaβ̞e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ave" come from?
"ave" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.