ayuda
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#386
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ayuda is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de ayudar. Pronounced [aˈʝuð̞a]. It ranks #386 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ayude and ayudo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ayuda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈʝuð̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ayuda is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈʝuð̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #386 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 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 ayuda, with forms such as "auyda", "aydua", and "ayuad". 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, "ayude", "ayudo", "ayuno", 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 ayuda, spelled A-Y-U-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de ayudar.
- 2Lo que ayuda.
- 3Aguador entre pastores.
- 4Medicamento para descargar y limpiar el vientre.
- 5El instrumento con que se introduce el medicamento en los intestinos.
- 6En el picadero la que el jinete da al caballo, tocándole con el pie, con los estribos o con la vara.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: auyda,aydua,ayuad,ayudda,ayyuda,yauda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ayuda
Misspelling Variants of "ayuda"
Frequency rank: #386 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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