Alegria
"alegria" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Alegria” is uncommon English (frequency #98,948 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,948
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Spanish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alegria · Alegria · English
Alegria · rank #98,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,948
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH alehouse
Nearest frequency peer: alehouse (+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 “Alegria”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Agard
Agard
1,061 corpus weight
- aiga
aiga
1,056 corpus weight
- Akademi
Akademi
1,055 corpus weight
- Alegria
Alegria
1,053 corpus weight
- alehouse
alehouse
1,052 corpus weight
- Aleut
Aleut
1,051 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Alegria” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alegria |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Alegria” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Alegria is uncommon English at frequency #98,948 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Spanish.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Alegria in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Alegría. The correct English form is Alegria, spelled A-L-E-G-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Spanish.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Alegría.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).