alcohol
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alcohol
Misspelling Variants of "alcohol"
Frequency rank: #2,326 in Spanish
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "alcohol"?
What does "alcohol" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "alcohol"?
How do you pronounce "alcohol"?
What language does "alcohol" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: