albatros

/[alˈβ̞at̪ɾos]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#51,345

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

albatros is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Diomedeidae) Familia de aves marinas,de la cual se reconocen 22 especies diferentes de grandes dimensiones del orden de los Procellariiformes. Se pueden encontrar principalmente cerca de la costa ... Pronounced [alˈβ̞at̪ɾos].

Key facts for albatros
PropertyValue
Headwordalbatros
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[alˈβ̞at̪ɾos]
Letters8
Frequency rank#51,345
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of albatros in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for albatros is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alˈβ̞at̪ɾos]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,345 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Diomedeidae) Familia de aves marinas,de la cual se reconocen 22 especies diferentes de grandes dimensiones del orden de los Procellariiformes. Se pueden encontrar principalmente cerca de la costa ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for albatros in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 albatros, spelled A-L-B-A-T-R-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Diomedeidae) Familia de aves marinas,de la cual se reconocen 22 especies diferentes de grandes dimensiones del orden de los Procellariiformes. Se pueden encontrar principalmente cerca de la costa antártica, en el Atlántico Sur y en el océano Pacífico.^([definición imprecisa])

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #51,345 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "albatros"?
"albatros" is spelled A-L-B-A-T-R-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is [alˈβ̞at̪ɾos].
What does "albatros" mean?
As a noun, "albatros" means: (Diomedeidae) Familia de aves marinas,de la cual se reconocen 22 especies diferentes de grandes dimensiones del orden de los Procellariiformes. Se pueden encontrar principalmente cerca de la costa ...
How do you pronounce "albatros"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "albatros" is [alˈβ̞at̪ɾos]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "albatros" come from?
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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.