aldea
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,976
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aldea is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pueblo con poca población y, por lo general, sin leyes propias. Pronounced [al̪ˈd̪ea]. It ranks #3,976 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ale and alta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aldea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [al̪ˈd̪ea] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aldea is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [al̪ˈd̪ea]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,976 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pueblo con poca población y, por lo general, sin leyes propias.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for aldea, with forms such as "adlea", "aldae", and "alddea". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ale", "alta", "alma", and more, 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 aldea, spelled A-L-D-E-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pueblo con poca población y, por lo general, sin leyes propias.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adlea,aldae,alddea,aleda,alldea,ladea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "aldea"
Frequency rank: #3,976 in Spanish
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