alcalde
/ʔɐlˈkal.dɛ/
"alcalde" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alcalde” is an uncommon English word, ranked #82,977 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #82,977
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In Spain or Latin America, a municipal magistrate who has both judicial and administrative functions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcalde |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʔɐlˈkal.dɛ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alcalde” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for alcalde is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʔɐlˈkal.dɛ/. Corpus data places it at rank #82,977 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "In Spain or Latin America, a municipal magistrate who has both judicial and administrative functions.".
No misspelling variants are generated for alcalde in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish alcalde, from Arabic اَلْقَاضِي (al-qāḍī, “the judge”). Doublet of qadi and casis. The correct English form is alcalde, spelled A-L-C-A-L-D-E.
Definition
- 1In Spain or Latin America, a municipal magistrate who has both judicial and administrative functions.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish alcalde, from Arabic اَلْقَاضِي (al-qāḍī, “the judge”). Doublet of qadi and casis.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “alcalde”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-L-C-A-L-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ʔɐlˈkal.dɛ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.