albor
[alˈβ̞oɾ]
The verdict
“albor” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,596 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,596
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tono luminoso, brillante e incoloro, dado por reflejar por completo la luz
Corpus desk
Index ES-albor · albor · Spanish
albor · rank #82,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,596
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aleccionador
Nearest frequency peer: aleccionador (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “albor”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- ajedrecistas
ajedrecistas
17,409 corpus weight
- ajustador
ajustador
17,408 corpus weight
- alabamos
alabamos
17,407 corpus weight
- albor
albor
17,405 corpus weight
- aleccionador
aleccionador
17,404 corpus weight
- alegóricas
alegóricas
17,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “albor” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | albor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alˈβ̞oɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “albor” en español
Rare enough to double-check
albor is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,596 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [alˈβ̞oɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for albor, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is albor, spelled A-L-B-O-R.
Definition
- 1Tono luminoso, brillante e incoloro, dado por reflejar por completo la luz
- 2Primera luz del amanecer
- 3Por extensión, etapa inicial de algún proceso o desarrollo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how albor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«A prisa cantan los gallos y quieren quebrar albores (…)».
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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