alborzo
[alˈβ̞oɾso]
The verdict
“alborzo” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre común de varias plantas ericáceas arbóreas o arbustivas, en particular del género Arbutus.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alborzo · alborzo · Spanish
alborzo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alborzo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alˈβ̞oɾso] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alborzo” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
alborzo is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [alˈβ̞oɾso]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alborzo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
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 alborzo, spelled A-L-B-O-R-Z-O.
Definition
- 1Nombre común de varias plantas ericáceas arbóreas o arbustivas, en particular del género Arbutus.
- 2El fruto de la alborocera(1).
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