hiyab

/[xiˈʝaβ̞]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#93,121

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hiyab is aSpanishnoun. It means: Velo que cubre la cabeza y el pecho que las mujeres musulmanas usan en presencia de personas que no sean de su familia inmediata. Pronounced [xiˈʝaβ̞].

Key facts for hiyab
PropertyValue
Headwordhiyab
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[xiˈʝaβ̞]
Letters5
Frequency rank#93,121
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of hiyab in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for hiyab is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xiˈʝaβ̞]. Corpus data places it at rank #93,121 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Velo que cubre la cabeza y el pecho que las mujeres musulmanas usan en presencia de personas que no sean de su familia inmediata.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hiyab 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 hiyab, spelled H-I-Y-A-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Velo que cubre la cabeza y el pecho que las mujeres musulmanas usan en presencia de personas que no sean de su familia inmediata.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #93,121 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hiyab"?
"hiyab" is spelled H-I-Y-A-B. The IPA pronunciation is [xiˈʝaβ̞].
What does "hiyab" mean?
As a noun, "hiyab" means: Velo que cubre la cabeza y el pecho que las mujeres musulmanas usan en presencia de personas que no sean de su familia inmediata.
How do you pronounce "hiyab"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hiyab" is [xiˈʝaβ̞]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hiyab" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.