alcen
[ˈalsẽn]
The verdict
“alcen” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,444 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,444
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de alzar o de alzarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alcen · alcen · Spanish
alcen · rank #67,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,444
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alcanzaremos
Nearest frequency peer: alcanzaremos (-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 “alcen”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- agónica
agónica
32,561 corpus weight
- ahorré
ahorré
32,560 corpus weight
- alcanzaremos
alcanzaremos
32,558 corpus weight
- alcen
alcen
32,557 corpus weight
- alegóricos
alegóricos
32,556 corpus weight
- aliaron
aliaron
32,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “alcen” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈalsẽn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “alcen” en español
Rare enough to double-check
alcen is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,444 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈalsẽn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alcen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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.
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 alcen, spelled A-L-C-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de alzar o de alzarse.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de alzar o del imperativo negativo de alzarse.
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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