alcazar
/ˌalkəˈzɑː/
"alcazar" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alcazar” is uncommon English (frequency #80,170 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,170
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any Moorish fortress in Spain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alcazar · alcazar · English
alcazar · rank #80,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,170
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Alfaro
Nearest frequency peer: Alfaro (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “alcazar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aji
aji
19,836 corpus weight
- akamai
akamai
19,835 corpus weight
- Akhil
Akhil
19,834 corpus weight
- alcazar
alcazar
19,831 corpus weight
- Alfaro
Alfaro
19,830 corpus weight
- alif
alif
19,827 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alcazar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcazar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌalkəˈzɑː/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alcazar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alcazar is uncommon English at frequency #80,170 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌalkəˈzɑː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any Moorish fortress in Spain.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alcazar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish alcázar, from Arabic الْقَصْر (al-qaṣr). Doublet of castle. The correct English form is alcazar, spelled A-L-C-A-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1Any Moorish fortress in Spain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alcazar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But most eloquent of all were the stories passed down to her - highly decorated items which Harriet embellished even further in her resolute myth of the enchanted alcazar, the fairy chateau that never was.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish alcázar, from Arabic الْقَصْر (al-qaṣr). Doublet of castle.
This word in other languages
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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