albacea
[alβ̞aˈsea]
The verdict
“albacea” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,758 among 120,137 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,758
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Persona designada para hacer cumplir la última voluntad de una persona fallecida, y para la custodia y destino final de los bienes que poseía.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | albacea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alβ̞aˈsea] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “albacea” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
albacea is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,758 among 120,137 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [alβ̞aˈsea]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Persona designada para hacer cumplir la última voluntad de una persona fallecida, y para la custodia y destino final de los bienes que poseía.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for albacea in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is albacea, spelled A-L-B-A-C-E-A.
Definition
- 1Persona designada para hacer cumplir la última voluntad de una persona fallecida, y para la custodia y destino final de los bienes que poseía.
This word in other languages
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 “albacea”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-L-B-A-C-E-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [alβ̞aˈsea] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.