alcalde
[alˈkal̪d̪e]
The verdict
“alcalde” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,434. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,434
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona a cargo de la dirección administrativa o política de un municipio o ciudad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alcalde · alcalde · Spanish
alcalde · rank #1,434 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,434
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH áreas
Nearest frequency peer: áreas (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “alcalde”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- velocidad
velocidad
98,570 corpus weight
- visión
visión
98,569 corpus weight
- áreas
áreas
98,568 corpus weight
- alcalde
alcalde
98,567 corpus weight
- altura
altura
98,566 corpus weight
- anteriores
anteriores
98,565 corpus weight
What this shows “alcalde” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcalde |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alˈkal̪d̪e] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “alcalde”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around alcalde (IPA [alˈkal̪d̪e]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,434 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for alcalde, with forms such as "aclalde", "alaclde", and "alcadle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "arcade", "alcance", "alcaldía", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 alcalde, spelled A-L-C-A-L-D-E.
Definition
- 1Persona a cargo de la dirección administrativa o política de un municipio o ciudad.
- 2En ciertas danzas, el principal, que guía a los demás.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclalde
- alaclde
- alcadle
- alcaldde
- alcaled
- alcallde
- alccalde
- alclade
- allcalde
- lacalde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alcalde - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alcalde", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).