alcanfor
The verdict
“alcanfor” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #63,553 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #63,553
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Sustancia blanca, sólida, cristalina, volátil, de sabor urente y olor característico, insoluble en agua y soluble en alcohol y en éter, la cual se halla principalmente en el alcanforero y en otras ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcanfor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alkãɱˈfoɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alcanfor” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alcanfor is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alkãɱˈfoɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,553 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for alcanfor 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 alcanfor, spelled A-L-C-A-N-F-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustancia blanca, sólida, cristalina, volátil, de sabor urente y olor característico, insoluble en agua y soluble en alcohol y en éter, la cual se halla principalmente en el alcanforero y en otras lauráceas y también en la raíz de la rubia y en el ámbar.
- 2(Cinnamomum camphora) Alcanforero.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #63,553 in Spanish
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Using “alcanfor”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-L-C-A-N-F-O-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [alkãɱˈfoɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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