alcaicería
Spanish, noun/alkaiθeˈɾia/
alcaicería is spelled A-L-C-A-I-C-E-R-Í-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Spanish, the 231,957th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alcaicería is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “A public marketplace where silk merchants would expose their merchandise in order to be charged with the duties they owed to the Moorish…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Lugar donde se llevaba la seda para pagar los derechos establecidos por los reyes moros”.
What does alcaicería mean in English?
noun
- 1
SpainfeminineA public marketplace where silk merchants would expose their merchandise in order to be charged with the duties they owed to the Moorish monarchs.
- 2
SpainfeminineAny marketplace, especially for silk.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lugar donde se llevaba la seda para pagar los derechos establecidos por los reyes moros. 2. Zona comercial que vende seda y otras mercancias.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of alcaicería
- alcaicerías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alcaicería?
- /alkaiθeˈɾia/
- [al.kai̯.θeˈɾi.a]
- /alkaiseˈɾia/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is alcaicería in Spanish?
alcaicería appears about once in every 43 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).