ojo de agua
The verdict
“ojo de agua” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Manantial o naciente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ojo de agua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈoxo ð̞e ˈaɣ̞wa] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ojo de agua” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ojo de agua is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoxo ð̞e ˈaɣ̞wa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ojo de agua 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 ojo de agua, spelled O-J-O- -D-E- -A-G-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manantial o naciente.
- 2Hueco cavado en zonas donde existen aguas subterráneas.
- 3Acumulación de agua en el cráter de un volcán dormido, debido a la fragmentación del magma subterráneo que este contiene.
- 4Cráter donde sale agua de filtración subterránea.
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Using “ojo de agua”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-J-O- -D-E- -A-G-U-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈoxo ð̞e ˈaɣ̞wa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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