ayatolá
[aʝat̪oˈla]
The verdict
“ayatolá” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #66,698 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #66,698
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Segundo título más alto dentro del clero chiita duodecimano, que requiere conocimiento y dominio en ciencias islámicas como la jurisprudencia, la filosofía, el conocimiento iluminativo y la moral.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ayatolá |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aʝat̪oˈla] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ayatolá” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ayatolá is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aʝat̪oˈla]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,698 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Segundo título más alto dentro del clero chiita duodecimano, que requiere conocimiento y dominio en ciencias islámicas como la jurisprudencia, la filosofía, el conocimiento iluminativo y la moral.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ayatolá in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ayatolá, spelled A-Y-A-T-O-L-Á.
Definition
- 1Segundo título más alto dentro del clero chiita duodecimano, que requiere conocimiento y dominio en ciencias islámicas como la jurisprudencia, la filosofía, el conocimiento iluminativo y la moral.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ayatolá”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-Y-A-T-O-L-Á - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aʝat̪oˈla] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.