azul
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,279
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
azul is anSpanishadj. It means: De color que recuerda al del cielo en un día despejado, ubicado entre el verde y el añil en el espectro cromático, en una longitud de onda de alrededor de 470 nm. Tradicionalmente se considera el q... Pronounced [aˈsul]. It ranks #1,279 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with azur and azules.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | azul |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [aˈsul] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for azul is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈsul]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,279 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for azul, with forms such as "auzl", "azlu", and "azull". 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, "azur", "azules", "al", 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 azul, spelled A-Z-U-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De color que recuerda al del cielo en un día despejado, ubicado entre el verde y el añil en el espectro cromático, en una longitud de onda de alrededor de 470 nm. Tradicionalmente se considera el quinto color del arcoíris o espectro solar. :* Color:
- 2Dicho del pescado, que es rico en grasa, como la sardina y la caballa. ^([cita requerida])
- 3Dicho de la piel humana, de color azulado o violáceo.
- 4Perteneciente o relativo al club de fútbol Universidad de Chile, o hincha de ese equipo.
- 5Que pertenece o concierne al partido conservador, o partidario de él.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: auzl,azlu,azull,azzul,zaul
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for azul
Misspelling Variants of "azul"
Frequency rank: #1,279 in Spanish
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