alcancía
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#58,245
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
alcancía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Recipiente de metal, cerámica, barro u otros materiales, utilizado para el ahorro de dinero, que cuenta con una ranura en la parte superior para introducir las monedas. Pronounced [alkãnˈsia].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcancía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alkãnˈsia] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alcancía is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alkãnˈsia]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,245 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for alcancía in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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.
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 alcancía, spelled A-L-C-A-N-C-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recipiente de metal, cerámica, barro u otros materiales, utilizado para el ahorro de dinero, que cuenta con una ranura en la parte superior para introducir las monedas.
- 2Recipiente destinado a la recepción de donativos en instituciones de beneficencia o eclesiásticas.
- 3Cantidad de dinero que se ha reunido en ellas;
- 4Recipiente que se llenaba de alquitrán u otros productos inflamables que se encendía y se arrojaba a los enemigos.
- 5Bola de estopa o compuesto de fuego para quemar los navíos en el mar, de modo que no basta el agua para apagarla, antes bien la enciende más, y el modo común de ahogarla es echar encima una manta empapada en aceite.
- 6El padre de la mancebía.
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Frequency rank: #58,245 in Spanish
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