alcohol
[alkoˈol]
The verdict
“alcohol” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #2,326 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,326
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cualquiera de los hidrocarburos saturados o alcanos que contienen un grupo hidróxilo (-OH) en sustitución de un átomo de hidrógeno enlazado de forma covalente.
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 | alcohol |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alkoˈol] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alcohol” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alcohol is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alkoˈol]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,326 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for alcohol, with forms such as "aclohol", "alccohol", and "alchool". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "alcoholes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. The correct Spanish form is alcohol, spelled A-L-C-O-H-O-L.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de los hidrocarburos saturados o alcanos que contienen un grupo hidróxilo (-OH) en sustitución de un átomo de hidrógeno enlazado de forma covalente.
- 2Por antonomasia, aquel que se presenta en forma líquida, siendo incoloro, diáfano, inflamable y de olor fuerte, que obtenido tradicionalmente por fermentación de azúcares es el componente distintivo de las bebidas alcohólicas.
- 3Bebida cualquiera que contiene este producto.
- 4Polvo negro, obtenido del hollín u otra sustancia, utilizado como maquillaje para ojos y cejas en buena parte del Medio y Lejano Oriente.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aclohol,alccohol,alchool,alcohhol,alcohlo,alcoholl,alcoohl,allcohol,alochol,lacohol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alcohol - 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 “alcohol”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-L-C-O-H-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [alkoˈol] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “alcoholes” - see the side-by-side comparison. alcohol vs alcoholes
- 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.