alazor

/[alaˈsoɾ]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

alazor is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Carthamus tinctorius), planta herbácea, oleaginosa del género Carthamus de la familia Asteraceae y que, aunque originalmente era cultivada por sus flores usadas como colorante, hoy en día se culti... Pronounced [alaˈsoɾ].

Key facts for alazor
PropertyValue
Headwordalazor
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[alaˈsoɾ]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

alazor is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for alazor is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alaˈsoɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for alazor in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is alazor, spelled A-L-A-Z-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Carthamus tinctorius), planta herbácea, oleaginosa del género Carthamus de la familia Asteraceae y que, aunque originalmente era cultivada por sus flores usadas como colorante, hoy en día se cultiva principalmente por sus semillas, de las cuales se extrae un aceite comestible.
  2. 2
    (Carthamus lanatus), planta herbácea del género Carthamus en la familia Asteraceae. Es una planta anual, de 10 a 60 cm de altura (y hasta el doble en suelos sub-nitrófilos); con tallos erectos, muy ramificados - sobre todo en sus partes media y superior, y cubiertos de un abundante tomento lanudo blanco.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alazor"?
"alazor" is spelled A-L-A-Z-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is [alaˈsoɾ].
What does "alazor" mean?
As a noun, "alazor" means: (Carthamus tinctorius), planta herbácea, oleaginosa del género Carthamus de la familia Asteraceae y que, aunque originalmente era cultivada por sus flores usadas como colorante, hoy en día se culti...
How do you pronounce "alazor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alazor" is [alaˈsoɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alazor" come from?
"alazor" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.