alcor
[alˈkoɾ]
The verdict
“alcor” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,223 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,223
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Elevación orográfica del terreno inferior a una montaña.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alcor · alcor · Spanish
alcor · rank #74,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,223
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alcornoque
Nearest frequency peer: alcornoque (+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 “alcor”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- ahorrador
ahorrador
25,781 corpus weight
- alcabala
alcabala
25,780 corpus weight
- alcor
alcor
25,778 corpus weight
- alcornoque
alcornoque
25,777 corpus weight
- Alen
Alen
25,776 corpus weight
- alertados
alertados
25,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “alcor” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alˈkoɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “alcor” en español
Rare enough to double-check
alcor is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,223 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [alˈkoɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Elevación orográfica del terreno inferior a una montaña.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alcor, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is alcor, spelled A-L-C-O-R.
Definition
- 1Elevación orográfica del terreno inferior a una montaña.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alcor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La eternidad — vale decir la muerte — arropó a Quito en liturgia y ahí, la ciudad, amurallada por la montaña y el alcor, que nunca abjuró de su destino de torre y de cúpula sobre el almácigo de las casas chatas
This word in other languages
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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