ayllu
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,699
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ayllu is aSpanishnoun. It means: Familia. Pronounced [ˈaj.ʎu].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ayllu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaj.ʎu] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ayllu is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaj.ʎu]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,699 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ayllu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 ayllu, spelled A-Y-L-L-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Familia.
- 2Grupo de parentesco extenso en el antiguo Tahuantinsuyu (o Reino de las Cuatro Partes) precolombino peruano, cuyos miembros estaban unidos por derechos y obligaciones de tipo personal y laboral, entre sí como con el Inca gobernante.
Frequency rank: #66,699 in Spanish
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