hoja de afeitar
The verdict
“hoja de afeitar” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pequeño y delgado rectángulo de metal con dos bordes muy filosos que se usa principalmente para afeitarse la barba, aunque tiene otros usos como cortarse el cabello, afeitarse las piernas, sacar pu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hoja de afeitar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈoxa ð̞e afejˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hoja de afeitar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hoja de afeitar is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoxa ð̞e afejˈt̪aɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pequeño y delgado rectángulo de metal con dos bordes muy filosos que se usa principalmente para afeitarse la barba, aunque tiene otros usos como cortarse el cabello, afeitarse las piernas, sacar pu...".
No misspelling variants are generated for hoja de afeitar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 hoja de afeitar, spelled H-O-J-A- -D-E- -A-F-E-I-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pequeño y delgado rectángulo de metal con dos bordes muy filosos que se usa principalmente para afeitarse la barba, aunque tiene otros usos como cortarse el cabello, afeitarse las piernas, sacar punta a un lápiz, etc.
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Using “hoja de afeitar”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-J-A- -D-E- -A-F-E-I-T-A-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈoxa ð̞e afejˈt̪aɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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