alba
[ˈalβ̞a]
The verdict
“alba” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,456
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Luces que indican el despuntar del día antes del amanecer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alba · alba · Spanish
alba · rank #5,456 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,456
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH agresión
Nearest frequency peer: agresión (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “alba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- administrad…
administrador
94,548 corpus weight
- afirmación
afirmación
94,547 corpus weight
- agresión
agresión
94,546 corpus weight
- alba
alba
94,545 corpus weight
- Albert
Albert
94,544 corpus weight
- American
American
94,542 corpus weight
What this shows “alba” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈalβ̞a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “alba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around alba (IPA [ˈalβ̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,456 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for alba, with forms such as "abla", "alab", and "albba". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ana", "ama", "all", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is alba, spelled A-L-B-A.
Definition
- 1Luces que indican el despuntar del día antes del amanecer.
- 2Para los centinelas, el último de los cuartos en los que se divide la noche.
- 3Vestidura blanca en forma de túnica que usan los sacerdotes católicos por encima de otras prendas para celebrar la misa.
- 4Sábana.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frente al altar, el padre Carlos, revestido del alba y la misa, mueve los labios, sacude con unción el hisopo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abla
- alab
- albba
- allba
- alva
- laba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alba - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alba", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).