azabache
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,403
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
azabache is aSpanishnoun. It means: Variedad dura, negra y brillante del carbón vegetal llamado normalmente lignito, de textura compacta y pulimentable, apreciado para la talla. Úsase para hacer botones, dijes y otras obras de adorno. Pronounced [asaˈβ̞at͡ʃe].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | azabache |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [asaˈβ̞at͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for azabache is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [asaˈβ̞at͡ʃe]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,403 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 azabache 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 azabache, spelled A-Z-A-B-A-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variedad dura, negra y brillante del carbón vegetal llamado normalmente lignito, de textura compacta y pulimentable, apreciado para la talla. Úsase para hacer botones, dijes y otras obras de adorno.
- 2Pájaro de unos ocho centímetros de largo, con el lomo de color ceniciento obscuro, el vientre blanco y la cabeza y las alas negras.
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Frequency rank: #51,403 in Spanish
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