alegría
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,146
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
alegría is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sensación de contento que se produce debido a algo agradable. Pronounced [aleˈɣ̞ɾia]. It ranks #2,146 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with alerta and alegro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alegría |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aleˈɣ̞ɾia] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alegría is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aleˈɣ̞ɾia]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,146 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for alegría, with forms such as "aelgría", "aleggría", and "alegraí". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "alerta", "alegro", "avería", 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 alegría, spelled A-L-E-G-R-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sensación de contento que se produce debido a algo agradable.
- 2Lo que produce dicha sensación.
- 3Tipo de cante flamenco.
- 4Planta anual, frecuentemente utilizada en jardinería, que no suele sobrepasar los 50 centímetros, de tallos erguidos y rectos muy ramificados. Las hojas son lanceoladas y de color verde claro, tienen cortos peciolos y bordes aserrados.
- 5Dulce mexicano elaborado principalmente de amaranto y miel.
- 6Nuégado en que entra la simiente llamada alegría₁₂.
- 7Taberna
- 8El estado en que se halla una facultad mental cuando alcanza el objeto especial de su deseo.
- 9Dulce seco hecho de ajonjolí ó coco rallado, millo, miel de cana, azúcar, etc.
- 10Abertura, por la de una porta.
- 11Planta de un pie de altura , con los tallos y hojas vellosas y la flor blanca, y que produce una cajilla, dentro de la cual se contienen cuatro semillas ovaladas, comprimidas y amarillentas.
- 12Simiente de esta planta₁₂, que se aprovecha para dar sabor a algunos manjares.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aelgría,aleggría,alegraí,alegrría,alegíra,alergía,algería,allegría,laegría
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alegría
Misspelling Variants of "alegría"
Frequency rank: #2,146 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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