acelga
[aˈselɣ̞a]
The verdict
“acelga” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,774 among 120,137 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,774
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Beta vulgaris var. cicla) Planta herbácea comestible, de la familia de las amarantáceas, con hojas grandes, de color verde brillante y nervadas, de tallos blancos, amarillos o rojos, según la vari...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acelga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈselɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “acelga” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
acelga is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,774 among 120,137 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈselɣ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Beta vulgaris var. cicla) Planta herbácea comestible, de la familia de las amarantáceas, con hojas grandes, de color verde brillante y nervadas, de tallos blancos, amarillos o rojos, según la vari...".
acelga has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is acelga, spelled A-C-E-L-G-A.
Definition
- 1(Beta vulgaris var. cicla) Planta herbácea comestible, de la familia de las amarantáceas, con hojas grandes, de color verde brillante y nervadas, de tallos blancos, amarillos o rojos, según la variedad. Pertenece a la misma especie que las betarragas o remolachas, pero se trata de una variedad cultivada para el consumo de sus hojas, en lugar de las raíces.
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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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “acelga”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-C-E-L-G-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.