al
Spanish, contraction
al is spelled A-L (2 letters) and appears 5,495 times per million words in written Spanish, the 22nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Al is a Spanish contraction meaning “contraction of a + el, literally “at the, to the”” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ál is a different word: “everything, the rest”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Contracción de la preposición a y el artículo el (masculino singular) Forma obligatoriamente contracta; la…”.
What does al mean in English?
contraction
- 1
contraction of a + el, literally “at the, to the”
- 2
upon
suffix
- 1
femininemasculineindicates relation
suffix
- 1
masculineindicates a place where something is grown, or where there is plenty of it
pronoun
- 1
obsoleteeverything, the rest
- 2
obsoleteother, another
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. Contracción de la preposición a y el artículo el (masculino singular) Forma obligatoriamente contracta; la forma *a el no está aceptada por la Real Academia. Se utiliza para todos los valores de a.
suffix: 1. Forma adjetivos en los que indica "pertenencia o relación con" el significado de la raíz.. 2. Forma sustantivos en los que indica "abundancia de" lo que significa la raíz.. 3. Forma sustantivos en los que indica "pertenencia a" la función aldehído, de química orgánica.
pronoun: 1. Otra cosa.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to al
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is al in Spanish?
al appears 5,495 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).