Alcántara
[alˈkãn̪t̪aɾa]
The verdict
“Alcántara” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,302. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,302
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pueblo de la provincia de Cáceres, en España.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alcantara · Alcántara · Spanish
Alcántara · rank #19,302 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,302
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Alain
Nearest frequency peer: Alain (-2 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 “Alcántara”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- aeronave
aeronave
80,703 corpus weight
- agitado
agitado
80,702 corpus weight
- Alain
Alain
80,701 corpus weight
- Alcántara
Alcántara
80,699 corpus weight
- Alpes
Alpes
80,697 corpus weight
- ambulante
ambulante
80,696 corpus weight
What this shows “Alcántara” 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 | Alcántara |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [alˈkãn̪t̪aɾa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Alcántara”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Alcántara (IPA [alˈkãn̪t̪aɾa]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,302 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alcántara, with forms such as "aclántara", "alccántara", and "alcnátara". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "alcanzar", "alcanzaba", "alcanzará", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is Alcántara, spelled A-L-C-Á-N-T-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Pueblo de la provincia de Cáceres, en España.
- 2Apellido de origen andaluz.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclántara
- alccántara
- alcnátara
- alcánatra
- alcánntara
- alcántaar
- alcántarra
- alcántraa
- alcánttara
- alcátnara
- allcántara
- alácntara
- lacántara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alcántara - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Alcántara", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).