yak

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for yak is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʝak]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,953 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bóvido de gran tamaño y pelaje lanoso nativo de las montañas de Asia Central y el Himalaya. Es un animal gregario de pelo invariablemente largo y negro, con una joroba sobre los hombros y cuernos l...".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for yak, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is yak, spelled Y-A-K.