alcance
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,064
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
alcance is aSpanishnoun. It means: La acción y efecto de alcanzar al que se sigue. Pronounced [alˈkãnse]. It ranks #2,064 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with avance and alcanza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcance |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alˈkãnse] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alcance is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alˈkãnse]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,064 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for alcance, with forms such as "aclance", "alacnce", and "alcacne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "avance", "alcanza", "alcanzó", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 alcance, spelled A-L-C-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1La acción y efecto de alcanzar al que se sigue.
- 2La distancia a que llega el brazo por su natural disposición, o por el diferente movimiento o postura del cuerpo.
- 3La distancia a donde llega el tiro de las armas de fuego y arrojadizas.
- 4La distancia a donde alcanza un arma blanca.
- 5En las cuentas diferencia del cargo a la data.
- 6Capacidad, talento.
- 7Contusión con herida o sin ella, que se hace alguna caballería en los talones o en los pulpejos de las extremidades anteriores con la herradura de uno de sus miembros abdominales, o que la recibe de otra que va detrás de ella o a su lado.
- 8Correo extraordinario que sale para alcanzar al ordinario.
- 9En los periódicos, noticia importante recibida a última hora.
- 10Tratándose de obras del espíritu humano, trascendencia, resultado, consecuencia.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aclance,alacnce,alcacne,alcancce,alcanec,alcannce,alcanse,alccance,alcnace,allcance,lacance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alcance
Misspelling Variants of "alcance"
Frequency rank: #2,064 in Spanish
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