alcancía

[alkãnˈsia]

/[alkãnˈsia]/ noun

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The verdict

“alcancía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #58,245 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,245
frequency rank, Spanish
7,704
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.

Corpus desk

Index ES-alcancia · alcancía · Spanish

alcancía · rank #58,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,245
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 7,704
  • PHOTO-FINISH alcaloides

Nearest frequency peer: alcaloides (-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.

Rangos de cola larga cerca de “alcancía”

Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “alcancía” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for alcancía
PropertyValue
Headwordalcancía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[alkãnˈsia]
Letters8
Frequency rank#58,245
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cola larga: rango de “alcancía” en español

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).alcancíacae en esta cola de rareza:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. Vecinos raros de la misma franja: “alcaloides” (#58,244), “alb” (#58,242), “alegórica” (#58,248). Entre 7,704 lemas con “A”, “alcancía” va en #58,245. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

alcancía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #58,245 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [alkãnˈsia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alcancía, 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is alcancía, spelled A-L-C-A-N-C-Í-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Recipiente destinado a la recepción de donativos en instituciones de beneficencia o eclesiásticas.
  3. 3
    Cantidad de dinero que se ha reunido en ellas;
  4. 4
    Recipiente que se llenaba de alquitrán u otros productos inflamables que se encendía y se arrojaba a los enemigos.
  5. 5
    Bola 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.
  6. 6
    El padre de la mancebía.

Synonyms

huchacepillo

This word in other languages

money box(English)tirelire(Français)Spardose(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alcancía"?
"alcancía" is spelled A-L-C-A-N-C-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [alkãnˈsia].
What does "alcancía" mean?
As a noun, "alcancía" 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.
How do you pronounce "alcancía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alcancía" is [alkãnˈsia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alcancía" come from?
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alcancía", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

amaranto#58,259amputado#58,261antecede#58,269zánganos#58,213

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list