alce
[ˈalse]
The verdict
“alce” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #37,936 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #37,936
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Alces alces) Especie de mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los cérvidos. Habitante original de los bosques nórdicos de Europa y Asia. Es cazado especialmente por su carne, la piel y los huesos...
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 | alce |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈalse] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alce” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alce is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈalse]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,936 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Alces alces) Especie de mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los cérvidos. Habitante original de los bosques nórdicos de Europa y Asia. Es cazado especialmente por su carne, la piel y los huesos...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for alce, with forms such as "acle", "alcce", and "alec". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "all", "ave", "are", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is alce, spelled A-L-C-E.
Definition
- 1(Alces alces) Especie de mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los cérvidos. Habitante original de los bosques nórdicos de Europa y Asia. Es cazado especialmente por su carne, la piel y los huesos, así como por deporte. Pueden pesar de 350 hasta 450 kg y tener una altura de 1,50 a 2,15 m. La diferenciación de machos y hembras solo es notada en la falta de astas ya que sus alturas son relativamente iguales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acle,alcce,alec,allce,alse,lace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alce - 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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Using “alce”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-L-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈalse] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “all” - see the side-by-side comparison. alce vs all
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.