alcohol

/[alkoˈol]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,326

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

alcohol is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de los hidrocarburos saturados o alcanos que contienen un grupo hidróxilo (-OH) en sustitución de un átomo de hidrógeno enlazado de forma covalente. Pronounced [alkoˈol]. It ranks #2,326 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with alcoholes.

Key facts for alcohol
PropertyValue
Headwordalcohol
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[alkoˈol]
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,326
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of alcohol in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for alcohol is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for alcohol, with forms such as "aclohol", "alccohol", and "alchool". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is alcohol, spelled A-L-C-O-H-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cualquiera de los hidrocarburos saturados o alcanos que contienen un grupo hidróxilo (-OH) en sustitución de un átomo de hidrógeno enlazado de forma covalente.
  2. 2
    Por 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.
  3. 3
    Bebida cualquiera que contiene este producto.
  4. 4
    Polvo 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alcohol

Misspelling Variants of "alcohol"

aclohol7alccohol8alchool7alcohhol8alcohlo7alcoholl8alcoohl7allcohol8
Misspelling Variants of "alcohol"

Frequency rank: #2,326 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alcohol"?
"alcohol" is spelled A-L-C-O-H-O-L. The IPA pronunciation is [alkoˈol].
What does "alcohol" mean?
As a noun, "alcohol" means: Cualquiera de los hidrocarburos saturados o alcanos que contienen un grupo hidróxilo (-OH) en sustitución de un átomo de hidrógeno enlazado de forma covalente.
What words are commonly confused with "alcohol"?
"alcohol" is commonly confused with "alcoholes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "alcohol"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alcohol" is [alkoˈol]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alcohol" come from?
"alcohol" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.